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Wit  and  Wisdom  of 
Warren  Akin  Candler 

Edited  by  Elam  Franklin  Dempsey 

WITH    AN    INTRODUCTION    BY 

Rev.    Andrew  J.   Lamar,    D.D. 

Publishins    Asent,    Methodist   Episcopal   Church,    South 


'the  preacher  sought  to  find  out  words  of  delight: 

AND   that    which    WAS   WRITTEN   WAS    UPRIGHT,    EVEN 

WORDS    OF    TRUTH.       THE   WORDS    OF    THE    WISE 

ARE    AS    GOADS,    AND    AS    NAILS    FASTENED 

BY     THE    MASTERS     OF     ASSEMBLIES, 

WHICH  ARE   GIVEN    FROM  ONE 

SHEPHERD."       (ECCLES. 

XII.    ID  AND   II.) 


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NASHVILLE,  TENN. 
COKESBURY  PRESS 


COPYRIGHT,   1922 

BY 
SMITH   &  LAMAR 


To 
HON.   ASA    GRIGGS   CANDLER 

TTie  McBcenas  of  Southern  Methodism 


PREFACE. 

Long  since,  the  wealth  of  wit  and  wisdom  of  South- 
ern genius  has  needed  to  be  collected  into  permanent 
volumes.  With  this  compilation  from  the  speech 
and  writing  of  Bishop  Warren  Akin  Candler — the 
Macaulay  of  Southern  Methodism — I  begin  to  meet 
this  need. 

In  this  compilation  there  is  but  a  small  portion  of 
the  vast  wealth  of  flashing  insight,  brilliant  epigram, 
sharp  antithesis,  sparkling  wit,  melting  pathos, 
hearty  humor,  homely  apothegm,  awakening  para- 
dox, spiritual  jeux  (Tesprit,  sweeping  generalization, 
and  heaven-inspired  thought  embodied  in  the  speech 
and  writing  of  this  "terrible  toiler"  to  whom  nature 
has  intrusted  a  mind  alike  brilliant,  comprehensive, 
and  profound. 

Much  of  this  priceless  mental  wealth  has  passed 
from  us  in  unrecorded  utterance.  Would  that  some 
Ellenwood  had  been  at  hand  to  save  it  for  all  time ! 
Alas,  the  knowledge  of  it  will  onlv  linger  in  the  vague 
rumor  of  the  orator's  fame,  like  that  of  the  seraphic 
eloquence  of  George  Foster  Pierce.  However,  let  us 
be  thankful  for  an  occasional  stenographic  report 
and  for  the  fact  that  this  great  and  gifted  man  has 
been  industrious  with  his  pen.  Thus,  while  we  de- 
plore the  loss  of  much,  we  rejoice  at  the  rescue  of 
something. 

It  is  the  Editor's  hope  that  his  brethren  in  the 
ministry  may  find  this  volume  of  constant  service 
and  that  not  a  few  younger  preachers  may  make  it  a 
vade  mecum.  If  this  shall  come  to  pass,  both  their 
pulpit  thought  and  phrase  will  be  lifted  to  a  higher 

(5) 


6       Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

plane,  so  that  what  was  at  first  the  exclusive  pos- 
session of  one  great  mind  alone  may  ultimately  be- 
come in  a  very  real  sense  the  common  property  of 
all  minds.  In  this  manner,  let  us  hope  that 
Tennyson's  fate  may  be  fulfilled  upon  this  master 
preacher — 

"Read  my  little  fable: 

He  that  runs  may  read. 
Most  can  raise  the  flowers  now, 

For  all  have  got  the  seed." 

I  am  deeply  indebted  to  the  author  for  his  kind 
permission  to  make  this  compilation.  My  thanks 
are  also  due  to  Rev.  Charles  C.  Jarrell,  D.D.,  for 
his  sympathetic  encouragement  and  for  his  actual 
help  in  selecting  the  passages  from  "Wesley  and 
His  Work."  To  Rev.  A.  J.  Lamar,  D.D.,  one  of  the 
Book  Agents  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  I  wish  to  express  my  thanks  not  only  for 
writing  the  Introduction,  but  for  his  sage  counsels 
and  for  his  heartening  encouragement  as  to  the 
bringing  out  of  the  volume.  Indeed,  every  one  in 
the  Publishing  House  has  been  entirely  gracious. 

Mr.  Curtis  B.  Haley,  Assistant  to  the  Book  Edi- 
tor, has  by  his  expert  service  in  preparing  the  Index 
(which  he  has  made  almost  a  concordance)  placed 
every  reader  under  lasting  obligation  to  him.  More- 
over, in  innumerable  ways,  he  has  by  his  enthusiastic 
cooperation,  competent  workmanship,  and  brotherly 
helpfulness  personally  endeared  himself  to  me.  He 
is  the  sort  of  man  In  whose  debt  one  likes  to  be. 

Elam  F.  Dempsey. 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  December  17,  1921. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 

Page. 
Introduction 9 


PART  I.      FROM  NEWSPAPER  ARTICLES,  PAM- 
PHLETS,  BOOKLETS. 

Chapter  I. 
Newspaper  Articles 13 

Chapter  II, 
Pamphlets  and  Booklets 95 

PART  II.      FROM  EXTEMPORANEOUS  SERMONS, 
SPEECHES,  ADDRESSES. 

Chapter  I. 
Extemporaneous  Sermons  and  Lectures  at  Emory  Col- 
lege, 1894-98.     (From  a  Student's  Notebook) 107 

Chapter  II. 
Newspaper  Reports  of  Sermons  and  Addresses 116 

PART  III.  FROM  PUBLISHED  BOOKS. 

Chapter  I. 
"  History  of  Sunday  Schools  " 129 

Chapter  II. 
"Georgia's  Educational  Work" I37 

Chapter  III. 
"Christus  Auctor" l^o 

Chapter  IV. 
"  High  Living  and  High  Lives  " 1^5 

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8       Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

Chapter  V.  PAan. 

"Great  Revivals  and  the  Great  Republic" 189 

Chapter  VI. 
"Wesley  and  His  Work;  or,  Methodism  and  Missions".    197 

Chapter  VII. 
"Practical  Studies  in  the  Fourth  Gospel,"  Vol.  1 213 

Chapter  VIII. 
"Practical  Studies  in  the  Fourth  Gospel,"  Vol.  II 230 

Chapter  IX. 
"The  Kingdom  of  God's  Dear  Son" 247 

INDEXES. 

Topical 255 

Textual 284 


INTRODUCTION. 

Dr.  Dempsey,  in  collecting  and  arranging  these 
sayings  of  Bishop  Warren  A.  Candler,  has  rendered 
a  service  which  will  be  appreciated  by  the  friends 
and  admirers  of  the  Bishop  whose  number  is  meas- 
ured by  practically  the  number  of  preachers  and 
members  in  Southern  Methodism,  besides  thousands 
not  of  our  communion. 

The  compilation  has  been  a  labor  of  love  with  Dr. 
Dempsey,  who  has  known  and  loved  the  Bishop  for 
many  years,  and  the  selections  have  been  made  with 
admirable  judgment  and  discrimination. 

That  the  Bishop  is  rarely  gifted  with  both  wit 
and  wisdom  is  known  of  all  men,  and  in  this  laconic 
book  is  matter  which  will  repay  every  reader  for  the 
time  consumed  in  reading  it. 

It  is  worthy  of  a  place  in  every  man's  library  and 
we  bespeak  and  prophesy  for  it  a  large  circulation 
among  the  people  of  all  the  Churches  of  America. 

Andrew  J.  Lamar. 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  October  31,  1921. 

(9) 


PART  I. 

FROM  NEWSPAPER  ARTICLES, 
PAMPHLETS,   BOOKLETS. 

Chapter  I.    Newspaper  Articles. 
Chapter  II.  Pamphlets  and  Booklets, 


CHAPTER  I. 

ISewspaper  Articles. 
The  road  to  renown  is  the  path  of  duty. 

Our  wealth  must  become  heroic,  or  it  will  be- 
come destructive.  It  must  walk  in  paths  of  heroic 
simplicity,  eschewing  empty  pomps  and  vanities.  It 
must  give  itself  to  heroic  deeds  of  generosity.  In 
like  manner  the  less  opulent  must  be  subject  to  the 
spirit  of  a  heroic  contentment  and  self-respect  which 
excludes  all  thought  of  envy  or  jealousy  with  refer- 
ence to  more  favored  persons  or  classes.  This  spirit 
of  Christian  heroism  must  pervade  our  people. 

Self-sacrifice  is  the  essence  of  Christian  disciple- 
ship;  and  it  must  follow  that  self-indulgence  is  its 
antithesis.  If  self-sacrifice  is  the  law  of  life,  self- 
indulgence  must  be  the  law  of  death.  And  such  is 
the  case.  Nothing  so  dulls  and  deadens  the  moral 
sensibilities  as  the  habitual  indulgence  of  personal 
pleasure. 

When  a  missionary,  in  the  wilds  of  Africa,  is  eaten 
by  savages,  we  call  it  cannibalism,  although  nothing 
more  than  his  body  is  consumed.  But  when  fashion- 
able people,  in  the  indulgence  of  trivial  pleasures, 
consume  the  undying  souls  and  spiritual  life  of  ac- 
tors and  actresses,  many  people  see  nothing  repre- 

(13) 


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hensible  in  the  matter.  Is  there  not  here  a  certain 
sort  of  cannibalism  which  devours  for  diversion  the 
moral  life  of  men  and  women? 

The  myths  of  classic  lore  are  the  parables  of 
paganism. 

The  chief  concern  of  men  and  nations  should  be 
to  discover  the  liigh  things  into  which  money  may  be 
turned,  rather  than  to  tuni  all  things  both  high  and 
low  into  money.  The  making  of  money  may  be  as 
holy  and  high  a  thing  as  the  preaching  of  a  sermon 
or  the  writing  of  a  poem ;  for  it  may  endow  those 
religious  and  educational  enterprises  by  which  men 
are  prepared  for  the  ministry  of  the  gospel  and  for 
the  production  of  inspiring  literature.  Some  men  in 
our  land  have  discovered  this  holy  alchemy  which 
turns  the  base  metal  of  material  wealth  into  the  im- 
perishable gold  of  intellectual  culture  and  moral 
power.  Such  men  are  worthy  to  stand  among  the 
noblest  of  mankind.  Their  toil  is  lifted  to  the  level 
of  worship  by  their  devotion  of  the  fruits  of  their 
labor  to  the  ennobling  of  the  human  race. 

Nothing  is  worse  for  a  nation  than  overwise  wick- 
edness. ^ 

A  Christian  must  suffer  wrong  rather  than  do 
wrong. 

A  crow  does  not  acquire  title  to  a  forest  by  build- 
ing a  nest  in  one  of  its  trees ;  and  because  the  Divine 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler     15 

Proprietor  permits  us  to  make  houses  in  his  world 
we  are  not  to  suppose  that  thereby  he  has  renounced 
his  ownership  of  the  earth  in  our  favor. 

Nothing  is  gained  for  liberty  by  putting  down  the 
tyranny  of  kings  and  setting  up  the  tyranny  of 
mobs. 

The  Japanese,  having  robbed  the  Koreans  of  their 
country,  would  take  away  their  hope  of  heaven  also. 

The  early  Christians  said,  "Let  us  have  all  things 
common  by  giving  to  others  what  is  ours" ;  but  mod- 
em communists  say,  "Let  us  have  all  things  common 
by  taking  from  others  what  is  theirs." 

Segregated  vice  is  concentrated  and  aggressive 
vice.  It  secretes  pus  which  conveys  blood  poison  to 
the  whole  social  system. 

Let  us  hear  no  more  of  the  practicability  of  segre- 
gating vice  with  a  view  to  extirpating  or  limiting  it ; 
one  might  as  well  talk  of  extirpating  snakes  by  es- 
tablishing a  viper  farm. 

The  only  way  to  be  rid  of  sin  is  to  quit  it  right 
now. 

Routs  in  the  palace  mean  in  the  end  riots  in  the 
streets. 

It  is  not  the  ofBce  of  conscience  to  create  moral 


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law,  but  to  recognize  such  law  and  to  impel  men  to 
obey  it. 

The  love  of  all  men,  which  Christianity  inculcates, 
no  more  excludes  patriotism  than  does  a  man's  love 
for  his  own  family  exclude  love  for  his  neighbors  and 
his  whole  country. 

Mankind  is  one,  and  no  country  is  helped  by  the 
misfortunes  of  a  sister  nation. 

It  is  time  for  education  to  move  on  higher  lines 
than  the  low  processes  which  cram  the  brain  with 
knowledge  and  kindle  the  mass  of  information  thus 
deposited  in  the  mind  with  unholy  ambitions.  The 
world  cannot  get  on  much  longer  without  the  holy 
culture  which  fires  the  heart  with  love  while  it  fills  the 
intellect  with  light. 

A  young  man  who  has  inherited  a  good  father's 
fortune  should  not  fail  to  emulate  his  virtues  and 
follow  the  ways  of  his  simple  life. 

Character,  and  that  alone,  is  the  only  indispensa- 
ble possession. 

The  state  exists  for  men,  not  men  for  the  state. 

The  most  imperishable  monument  a  man  can  erect 
for  himself  is  one  made  of  an  ennobled  and  enlight- 
ened human  being. 

Educational  institutions  can  hardly  be  too  free 
in  the  investigation  of  secular  subjects,  and  they  can 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler     17 

hardly    be    too    fixed   in    their    religious    character. 
Such  is  the  ideal  denominational  institution. 

Much  lax  teaching  springs  from  the  position  as- 
sumed by  many  men  in  universities  which  they  ex- 
press by  saying,  "I  keep  an  open  mind."  As  applied 
to  religion  and  morality  such  an  attitude  is  about  as 
sensible  as  would  be  the  case  of  men  who  would  be 
saying  constantly,  "I  keep  an  open  mouth."  A  loll- 
ing mouth  is  not  more  silly  than  a  lolling  mind.  The 
fundamentals  of  religion  and  morality  are  fixed. 
Some  things  are  no  longer  open  to  discussion. 

Education  is  a  means  to  an  end ;  and  if  we  sacrifice 
the  higher  interests  of  liberty  and  parental  authority 
and  religion  for  education,  we  are  paying  for  it  a 
price  far  too  dear. 

Unregenerate  intellect  is  sheer  diabolism,  which 
blighted  paradise  in  the  beginning  and  will  blast  all 
good  things  in  the  end. 

The  highest  manifestation  of  the  feelings  arises 
from  love  to  God.  When  the  heart  is  filled  with  feel- 
ings of  this  sort,  intellect  and  sensibility  and  will 
unite  in  one  glowing  flame  in  which  human  nature 
shines  with  the  purest  ray  serene.  In  such  case 
there  is  a  unity  of  nature  and  a  loftiness  of  charac- 
ter in  which  human  life  is  seen  at  its  best.  All  these 
things  being  ti-ue,  it  follows  that  the  truest  education 
must  include  the  filling  of  the  heart  with  love  to  God. 

The  North  American  and  South  American  conti- 
nents  cannot  be  bound  together  firmly  by  ties   of 


18     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

commerce  alone.  They  will  become  fast  friends  when 
they  think  and  feel  alike.  Our  universities,  if  they 
are  richly  endowed  and  adequately  equipped,  will 
serve  this  end  more  effectually  than  all  the  consuls 
and  commercial  agents  who  have  been  or  can  be  en- 
gaged to  accomplish  it.  In  this  matter  our  commer- 
cial interests  and  our  religious  duty  coincide. 

The  most  valuable  undeveloped  resource  which  the 
South  has  is  her  children  and  youth.  They  are  our 
most  precious  raw  material,  but  most  of  them  are  far 
too  raw.  They  will  develop  all  our  other  resources 
with  great  speed  when  they  are  educationally  pre- 
pared for  the  task ;  but  if  they  are  not  educated, 
others  will  come  in  and  reap  the  rewards  of  develop- 
ing the  resources  which  they  are  too  ignorant  to 
handle.  That  has  happened  to  a  considerable  extent 
already. 

Eating  of  the  tree  of  knowledge  without  partaking 
of  the  fruit  of  the  tree  of  life  turns  paradise  into 
perdition. 

Bad  as  have  been  the  physical  results  of  intercol- 
legiate athletics,  the  moral  results  have  been  far 
worse.     These  games  are  brutal  and  brutalizing. 

An  educated  world  without  the  fear  of  God  in  its 
soul  or  respect  for  moral  law  in  its  head  would  be 
the  devil's  own  world  in  which  diabolical  intelligence 
would  work  the  most  diabolical  ends. 

In  truth,  that  is  no  gift  at  all  which  a  man  under- 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler     19 

takes  to  give  through  a  will.     A  man  can  no  more 
make  a  gift  after  he  is  dead  than  he  can  make  a  crop. 

Nothing  is  less  admirable  than  a  man  who  turns 
himself  into  a  coagulating  basin  for  storing  stagnant 
stuff. 

Our  government  was  not  established  for  the  pur- 
pose of  procuring  for  us  every  possible  form  of  good. 
There  are  some  good  things  which  a  man  can  procure 
for  himself  better  than  any  power  on  earth  can  pro- 
cure them  for  him. 

It  is  a  specious  way  of  setting  up  salacious  shows, 
when  vice  is  exhibited  in  moving  pictures  under  the 
pretense  of  warning  the  young  against  it.  These 
exhibitions  will  yield  a  vast  output  of  licentiousness. 

Knowledge  is  not  a  moral  prophylactic. 

Whether  China  is  Christian  or  infidel  is  a  matter 
which  is  now  being  settled  to  a  very  great  extent  in 
American  colleges  and  universities.  An  educated 
but  unchristian  China  will  be  able  to  set  the  world 
afire.  Let  thoughtful  men  of  all  classes  mark  these 
words  and  lay  the  matter  to  heart. 

Vanity  has  wasted  untold  treasure  on  unscrupu- 
lous flatterers. 

Money  is  stored  power,  and  as  such  it  may  be  de- 
livered on  the  achievement  of  the  noblest  ends.  One 
who  has  money  is  bound  not  only  to  put  it  to  good 


20     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

use,  but  to  the  best  use  as  far  as  he  can  judge.  It 
may  not  be  carelessly  used  for  even  benevolent  pur- 
poses. 

Pure  religion  by  its  very  nature  tends  to  produce 
riches,  and  riches  tend  to  corrupt  and  destroy  pure 
religion.  Wliat  then  should  be  the  Christian's 
course  with  respect  to  riches?  Wesley  points  out 
the  only  answer  to  this  question :  "If  those  who  gain 
all  they  can  and  save  all  they  can  will  likewise  give 
all  they  can,  then,  the  more  they  gain,  the  more  they 
will  grow  in  grace,  and  the  more  treasure  they  will 
lay  up  in  heaven." 

This  world  of  ours  is  a  high-powered  world  which 
will  rush  to  its  own  destruction  unless  guided  and 
controlled  by  the  mighty  hand  of  the  Prince  of 
Peace.  It  must  be  placed  under  his  control.  To 
this  end  our  Christian  colleges  and  universities  must 
be  made  speedily  as  strong  as  the  strongest,  and  they 
must  be  kept  truly  Christian  in  character,  or  the 
colleges  will  pull  down  what  the  Churches  build  up. 

The  destruction  of  the  Sabbath  involves  the  over- 
throw of  religion. 

A  Sabbathless  city  will  be  a  riotous  and  ruined 
city. 

Progress  which  is  away  from  principles  is  not  ad- 
vancement toward  any  good  thing,  but  a  heedless  and 
headstrong  movement  toward  every  conceivable  dis- 
aster. 


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A  Sabbathless  land  will  soon  be  a  religionless  land, 
and  a  religionless  land  is  a  hopeless  land. 

Nations  cannot  live  by  bread  alone.  The  word  of 
God  must  nourish  the  spiritual  life  of  our  people,  or 
the  Republic  is  doomed.  Patriotism,  as  well  as  piety, 
requires  that  we  keep  holy  God's  day  and  constantly 
refresh  our  faith  and  renew  our  moral  strength  at 
the  altars  of  God  in  the  churches. 

The  Christian  Sabbath  rose,  with  its  Lord,  out  of 
the  grave  in  the  garden  of  Joseph  of  Arimathea.  It 
is  a  radiant  miracle  testifying  with  hallowed  and 
hallowing  sweetness  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is 
risen  indeed.  The  Christian  Sabbath  being  an  abid- 
ing miracle  attesting  the  resurrection  of  our  Lord, 
it  behooves  us  to  grip  more  firmly  than  ever  the  ob- 
servance of  "the  Lord's  day." 

When  the  question  of  the  Sabbath  is  under  con- 
sideration a  certain  type  of  man  always  rises  to  re- 
mark that  the  Christian  Sabbath  and  the  Jewish 
Sabbath  are  very  different  institutions.  Others 
quickly  remind  us  that  we  do  not  wish  to  return  to 
the  Puritan  Sabbath.  These  tilings  are  wholly  ir- 
relevant to  the  real  issue.  The  question  of  supreme 
importance,  and  from  the  consideration  of  which  no 
side  issues  should  divert  our  attention,  is,  "How  can 
religion  be  preserved  without  a  day  of  rest  and  wor- 
ship.?" 

We  have  not  too  much  religion  in  the  United 
States,  and  if  we  throw  away  our  Christian  Sabbath 
we  shall  have  a  great  deal  less. 


22     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  AJcin  Candler 

Wage  earners  could  not  suffer  a  greater  calamity 
than  the  loss  of  the  Sabbath,  for  with  its  overthrow 
will  come  the  day  when  men  must  give  up  their  jobs 
or  give  up  their  Sunday  rest. 

He  who  subverts  the  Sabbath  does  not  love  any 
class  of  men,  rich  or  poor,  as  much  as  he  loves  his 
own  profane  self-indulgence. 

Men  toil  as  never  before,  notwithstanding  all  the 
labor-saving  devices  of  our  day.  And,  hence,  never 
in  the  history  of  mankind  was  the  Sabbath  more 
needed. 

As  locng  as  we  have  the  Sabbath  for  rest  and  wor- 
ship, no  evil  can  finally  fix  itself  upon  the  social 
system  and  no  good  can  fail  of  ultimate  victory ;  but 
without  the  Sabbath,  evil  will  go  without  rebuke  and 
good  without  effectual  advocacy. 

The  words  *'narrow"  and  "broad"  are  the  cant 
catchwords  of  a  shallow  liberalism;  they  have  no 
power  to  influence  a  serious  mind. 

The  poor  above  all  people  are  Interested  in  the 
preservation  of  the  Sabbath.  People  who  have  ample 
means  can  rest  when  they  will,  but  less  favored 
classes  need  a  day  on  which  all  work  is  forced  to 
stand  still. 

The  institution  of  the  Sabbath  is  indispensable  to 
the  moral,  social,  economic,  and  political  life  of  the 
nation. 


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There  is  not,  and  never  was,  a  deeply  religious 
community  in  our  own,  or  in  any  other  land,  without 
Sabbath  observance. 

It  is  most  significant  that  in  the  awful  crisis  which 
the  German  militarists  forced  on  the  world  mankind 
was  saved  by  the  nations  in  which  the  Sabbath  is 
best  observed — namely,  Great  Britain,  the  United 
States,  Canada,  and  Australia. 

Whatever  men  may  think  about  the  institution  of 
the  Sabbath,  the  life  of  a  pure  Christianity  and  the 
observance  of  the  holy  day  are  inseparably  bound  up 
together. 

We  want  a  vigorous,  brotherly,  and  zealous  Chris- 
tian life  to  meet  the  millions  of  immigrants,  who  are 
certainly  coming  to  our  shores,  on  their  arrival  in 
our  section.  Met  by  such  a  loving  and  fervent 
Christianity,  they  will  know  that  they  have  come  to 
a  new  world  indeed.  And  it  is  to  a  new  world  that 
they  need  to  come  in  order  to  find  a  new,  nobler,  and 
happier  life  than  they  have  ever  known  in  the  lands 
from  which  they  will  come.  On  the  other  hand,  if 
they  are  met  with  a  low,  lukewarm,  and  worldly  type 
of  Christianity  they  will  be  deprived  of  one  of  the 
greatest  blessings  which  they  ought  to  find  in  Ameri- 
ca; and  they  will  become  curses  both  to  themselves 
and  to  us. 

Our  sin  is  not  less  because  our  scruples  are  small. 

The  public  mind  is  beginning  to  show  the  deterio- 
ration which  always  comes  with  the  decay  of  the  Sab- 


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bath.  Many  of  our  people  are  excitable  and  irrita- 
ble and  inflammatory.  Never  resting,  they  are  be- 
coming the  prey  of  sensationalists  and  demagogues 
who  play  easily  upon  their  overwrought  nerves.  The 
political  hysteria  which  infects  many  minds  is  the 
result  of  Sabbathlessness.  Calmness  and  conscien- 
tiousness are  impossible  to  men  who  live  week  after 
week  under  an  unceasing  strain. 

If  knowledge  produced  good  character  and  in- 
spired kindly  dispositions,  then  the  devil  himself 
would  be  a  saint ;  for  some  six  thousand  years  ago 
he  is  recorded  to  have  been  most  subtle. 

Mankind  must  be  more  moral,  or  it  will  be  more 
martial. 

We  live  in  a  powerful  world ;  and  without  a  power- 
ful religion  to  control  it,  the  earth  cannot  be  longer 
a  safe  place  in  wliich  to  live. 

The  United  States  is  now  the  teaching  nation  of 
the  earth.  What  will  it  teach?  Will  it  impart  god- 
less Kultur,  and  kindle  thereby  another  world-wide 
conflagration,  or  will  it  impart  Christian  Culture 
and  thereby  promote  peace  to  the  ends  of  the  earth.'' 

What  men  believe  accords  with  how  they  behave. 

The  noblest  heroisms  become  quixotic  in  appear- 
ance, if  they  do  not  cease  altogether,  when  men  no 
longer  believe  in  eternal  life.  Why  should  one 
jeopardize,  or  sacrifice,  for  any  cause,  the  life  he 


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has  in  this  world,  if  there  is  to  be  no  other  life  to 
come?  Every  soldier  on  the  fields  of  France,  fight- 
ing for  the  right,  might  well  say,  with  St.  Paul,  "If 
the  dead  rise  not,  why  stand  we  in  jeopardy  every 
hour?" 

Men  of  definite  and  fixed  beliefs  do  the  work  of 
the  world.  When  men  cease  to  believe  strongly  they 
will  cease  to  live  nobly. 

A  good  life  is  the  fruit  of  faith;  but  it  is  equally 
true  that  faith  is  the  root  from  which  a  good  life 
springs,  and  we  cannot  have  the  fruit  without  the 
root. 

There  can  be  no  peace  among  men  until  glory  is 
given  to  God.     (Luke  ii.  14.) 

When  God  is  dethroned  by  men,  discord  reigns 
among  men. 

The  amount  of  peace  which  is  in  the  earth  at  any 
given  moment  is  no  more  than  the  amount  of  piety. 

Power  is  the  acid  test  of  character. 

Without  moral  preparedness  for  peace,  the  world 
will  run  again  its  same  old  course  of  peace,  prosperi- 
ty, greed,  lust  for  power,  and  a  period  of  conflict 
and  conflagration. 

From  the  manger  in  Bethlehem  to  the  cross  on 
Calvary,  Jesus  pursued  unwaveringly  and  undeviat- 


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mgly  the  path  of  perfect  rectitude.  They  who  would 
follow  in  his  footsteps  must  walk  by  the  same  rule 
and  mind  the  same  things.  And  it  is  not  to  be  dis- 
guised that  such  a  plan  of  life  may  lead  to  the  most 
painful  consequences.  It  led  him  to  crucifixion,  and 
crucifixion  in  some  form  or  other  awaits  every  soul 
who  is  perfectly  true  to  God  and  faithful  to  the  di- 
vine law.  But  such  crucifixion  is  followed  by  a 
glorification  akin  to  that  which  came  to  him  through 
his  unfaltering  fidelity. 

We  hear  it  said  often,  "I  am  obliged  to  live." 
This  is  a  great  mistake.  No  man  is  obliged  to  live, 
but  every  man  is  obliged  to  do  right. 

The  address  of  President  Wilson  to  the  Senate 
concerning  peace  expresses  the  noblest  ideals  in  the 
most  elevated  style.  It  is  as  terse  as  Franklin  and 
as  elegant  as  Macaulay. 

The  maxim  that  "necessity  knows  no  law"  is  a 
dogma  of  atheism.  The  Scriptures  teach  us,  on  the 
contrary,  that  God's  law  knows  no  necessity. 

Sin  is  worse  than  death,  and  the  divine  favor  is 
better  than  li^e.  If  at  any  time  one  finds  that  he 
cannot  live  and  do  right,  the  time  has  come  when  it 
is  better  for  him  to  die  than  to  live. 

A  revival  of  religion  is  a  return  to  God  for  the 
pardon  of  sin  and  the  renewal  of  life  in  righteousness 
and  true  holiness. 


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The  resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ  is  the  great  fact 
upon  which  supernatural  Christianity  rests. 

Liberalism  is  a  system  of  pretty  speech  and  puny 
power. 

The  whole  commercial  world  is  run  on  credit,  and 
credit  rests  on  confidence,  and  confidence  depends 
upon  character. 

Peace  on  earth  cannot  come  in  advance  of  right- 
eousness on  earth,  and  righteousness  is  of  faith  alone. 

To  what  is  the  leading  citizen  leading  the  people, 
when  he  himself  indulges  habits  of  intemperance  and 
licentiousness?  Such  leadership  can  lead  nowhere 
except  to  social  disaster  and  national  destruction. 

The  human  race  must  be  saved  by  divine  grace, 
or  it  will  suicide  by  diabolic  greed. 

For  any  new  and  hopeful  era  we  must  learn  to  say 
in  sincere  faith,  "In  the  beginning  God,"  and  cease 
professing  the  dogma  of  dirt,  "In  the  beginning 
earthly  goods." 

No  man  was  ever  strong  enough  to  hold  in  his 
hands  the  future  of  the  world.  God  reserves  that  to 
himself.  The  world  is  governed  supernaturally  for 
the  furtherance  of  Christianit3\ 

The  autocrats  and  the  anarchists  are  alike  inspired 
with  rutliless  greed.  Neither  should  be  tolerated  by 
civilized  society  for  a  moment. 


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To  make  an  end  of  war  forever,  men  must  become 
moral  enough  to  restrain  them  from  the  immoral  use 
of  power. 

When  power  outruns  piety  the  most  dreadful  con- 
sequences always  follow. 

Godlessness  is  too  inflammable  to  be  retained  in  the 
earth.  Religion  is  required  as  the  security  of  civili- 
zation ;  it  only  is  fireproof. 

Men  are  so  deluded  by  their  senses  that  they  under- 
estimate the  force  of  ideas  and  overestimate  the 
facts  of  force.  But  ideas  rule  the  world,  making 
wars  and  bringing  peace,  inspiring  conflicts  and  set- 
tling contentions.  Religious  ideas  are  the  most 
potent  of  all.  Whether  such  ideas  be  true  or  false, 
they  sooner  or  later  set  up,  or  pull  down,  social  and 
political  institutions,  and  make  or  mar  civilization 
when  once  they  are  accepted  by  men  or  nations.  The 
martyred  nation  of  Armenia  is  dying  to-day  because 
the  false  prophet  preached  his  diabolical  doctrines 
centuries  ago  in  Arabia, 

The  promotion  of  universal  peace  is  entirely  de- 
pendent upon  the  progress  of  Christianit3\  Only  the 
Prince  of  Peace  can  command  peace  on  earth  and 
good  will  among  men.  If  the  nations  will  not  hear 
his  voice,  and  at  his  bidding  dwell  together  in  broth- 
erliness,  no  other  power  can  restrain  their  fierce  pas- 
sions and  hush  forever  the  harsh  voice  of  war. 

Modern  progress  is  headed  for  perdition,  if  piety 
does  not  permeate  and  purify  it. 


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The  moral  faculties  of  a  true  man  are  discrimi- 
nating in  their  action.  They  are  never  tepid  and 
neutral  toward  a  conflict  between  good  and  evil. 

God  does  not  abdicate  his  power  because  he  allows 
men  freedom  of  action  in  the  world.  He  rules  by 
overruling,  and  none  can  stay  the  might  of  his  power. 

Rampant  and  ruthless  wrong  is  worse  than  war, 
and  a  war  to  put  down  such  wickedness  is  better  than 
a  peace  secured  by  supine  submission  to  domineering 
unrighteousness. 

Government  of  every  sort  in  its  last  analysis  is 
force ;  but  most  governmental  processes  are  executed 
without  the  actual  exertion  of  force,  but  by  the 
knowledge  upon  the  part  of  the  governed  that  force 
will  be  applied  to  the  restraint  and  correction  of 
wrong,  if  necessary.  Policemen  keep  order  not  by 
shooting  men  every  day,  but  by  having  authority  to 
arrest  and  kill  in  the  enforcement  of  law. 

The  Ten  Commandments  and  the  Sermon  on  the 
Mount  compose  the  Magna  Charta  of  civilization  and 
supply  the  basis  of  universal  righteousness  and  peace. 

We  must  have  everywhere  the  reign  of  right,  if 
we  are  to  have  the  rule  of  peace.  To  set  up  the 
reign  of  righteousness  will  require  heroic  efforts 
equal  to,  and  really  superior  to,  the  heroism  of  war. 
Herein  will  be  found  what  has  been  called  "the  moral 
equivalent  of  war,"  and  without  which  all  peace  would 
be  a  rotting  and  ruinous  peace. 


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We  talk  of  sending  the  gospel  to  the  ends  of  the 
earth,  as  we  ought  to  do ;  but  we  must  not  forget  to 
exhibit  to  all  the  world  its  heroic  graces  in  our  own 
lives.  We  dare  not  become  the  Pharisee  of  the  na- 
tions, forever  preaching  and  never  practicing  the 
religion  which  we  profess. 

When  might  is  right,  wrong  is  regnant  and  the 
social  system  is  pulled  down. 

Christianity,  although  of  Oriental  origin,  has 
showed  itself  at  home  in  Occidental  lands.  It  passes, 
like  the  sun  In  the  heavens,  unhindered  across  the 
widest  seas,  and  sheds  its  benign  beams  with  equal 
power  upon  all  lands.  Wherefore  the  problem  of 
universal  peace  Is  to  be  solved  by  the  propagation  of 
a  pure  Christianity  to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the 
earth.  The  missionary  enterprise  must  go  In  ad- 
vance of  international  commerce  to  secure  justice  In 
trade  and  safety  for  the  merchantmen ;  and  this  mis- 
sionary enterprise  Is  most  powerfully  promoted  by 
the  founding  and  fostering  of  Christian  Institutions 
of  learning  to  which  the  most  vigorous  minds  of  all 
nations  will  be  Inclined  to  come  for  Instruction.  It 
has  not  been  good  for  the  world  that  the  nations  for 
more  than  fifty  years  have  been  seeking  education 
in  the  rationalistic  institutions  of  continental  Eu- 
rope. The  welfare  of  mankind  demands  that  such 
be  the  case  no  longer.  In  our  own  land  of  peace  must 
rise  the  Institutions  for  the  teaching  of  the  nations 
in  the  future;  and  these  Institutions  must  be  entirely 
free  from  the  slightest  taint  of  militarism,  and  they 
must  be  filled  with  the  spirit  of  the  Prince  of  Peace. 


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Our  educational  institutions  must  be  the  greatest 
the  world  has  ever  seen,  and  they  must  be  uncompro- 
misingly Christian  in  their  character. 

To  dethrone  Mars  we  must  enthrone  Christ. 

Sin  makes  strife  and  back  of  every  war  there  is 
wickedness. 

The  sins  of  materialism  are  the  springs  of  militar- 
ism. 

Materialism  in  schools  means  militarism  in  nations. 
The  Prince  of  Peace  must  be  the  presiding  authoi-ity 
in  all  our  institutions  of  learning.  The  culture  which 
is  not  genuinely  Christian  is  inevitably  corrupting. 

The  essential  significance  of  the  Incarnation  is 
that  the  Son  of  God  identifies  himself  with  our  hu- 
manity and  becomes  the  new  head  of  the  race. 
Wherefore  he  is  the  Man  of  Sorrows  who  carries  our 
griefs  with  us  and  for  us,  and  who  bears  the  burdens 
which  we,  unaided  by  him,  cannot  endure.  It  was 
he  who  called  the  weary  and  heavy-laden  to  come  to 
him  for  rest,  and  a  multitude  which  no  man  can  num- 
ber have  responded  to  his  tender  words  and  have 
found  peace  to  their  souls. 

True  gratitude  to  our  bountiful  Creator  and  Pre- 
server will  exclude  the  thought  of  infracting  his  holy 
law. 

There  is  a  senseless  saying,  used  often  to  estrange 
young  men  from  the  religion  of  their  mothers,  which 


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runs  this  wise:  "You  took  your  religion  from  your 
mother.  It  is  not  yours,  but  hers."  Back  of  this 
taunt  is  the  implication  that  a  man  has  not  thought 
for  himself  until  he  has  renounced  the  belief  of  his 
parents.  Is  such  an  assumption  sound  or  sensible? 
Shall  one  refuse  food  because  it  has  been  set  before 
him  by  his  mother  without  a  chemical  analysis  of  it 
upon  which  he  can  pass  scientifically.'' 

Doubt  in  the  head  makes  disorder  in  the  life. 

One  of  the  worst  effects  of  war  is  the  demoraliza- 
tion that  follows  it.  For  every  drop  of  blood  shed 
some  vice  will  spring  up. 

No  gains  can  compensate  for  the  loss  of  godliness. 

"Be  not  conformed  to  this  world."  The  word 
translated  "world"  in  Romans  xii.  2  does  not  signify 
the  physical  globe,  or  the  bulk  of  mankind  inhabiting 
it;  but  it  implies  that  massed  spirit  of  the  times  to 
which  a  Christian  soul  should  never  become  subject. 

When  men  and  women  depart  from  God,  they  are 
very  disposed  to  separate  from  one  another,  just  as 
did  the  prodigal  son,  who,  when  he  left  his  father, 
left  his  brother  also. 

When  the  sacred  day  ceases  to  be  a  holy  day,  and 
becomes  a  mere  holiday,  then  worship  will  decline 
and  religion  will  wither  away. 

There  is  something  essentially  coarse  in  turning 
the  Sabbath  day  into  a  day  of  diversion  and  dissipa- 


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tion.  The  disposition  to  thus  profane  the  sacred 
day  is  the  mark  of  a  nature  which  is  wanting  in  re- 
finement and  it  is  the  prophecy  of  still  further  de- 
cline in  all  those  sweet  and  beautiful  things  which 
belong  to  the  noblest  and  gentlest  people. 

The  nations  who  forget  God  perish,  and  well- 
meaning  men  and  women  not  unf requently  forget  God 
in  their  too  absorbed  attention  to  programs  and 
"movements."  It  is  time  to  return  to  God.  This 
is  the  movement  which  is  supremely  and  imperatively 
necessary. 

The  tenderest  pity  for  men  issues  from  the  deepest 
piety  toward  God. 

Strength  of  character  is  in  direct  proportion  to 
strength  and  definiteness  of  conviction. 

The  decisive  moments  of  history  are  moments  in 
which  the  Holy  Spirit  renews  the  human  heart. 

Religion  is  the  foundation  of  philanthropy  and 
spirituality  is  the  support  of  all  moral  reformations. 

Men  cannot  separate  themselves  from  God  without 
at  the  same  time  separating  themselves  from  all  good. 

As  long  as  preachers  and  churches  bring  the  reve- 
lation of  God  to  men,  the  world  will  hear  them.  This 
is  a  sphere  in  which  the  Church  is  without  a  competi- 
tor, and  in  which  it  ought  to  speak  as  with  a  voice 
from  heaven. 
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Most  men  are  readj  to  approve  Christianity  in 
the  abstract ;  but  when  the  principles  of  Christianity 
are  apphed  concretely  to  matters  with  which  they 
have  to  do,  they  are  instantly  aroused  against  it. 
When  thus  aroused,  they  proceed  to  find  fault  with 
the  organized  form  of  Christianity  because  they  are 
unwilling  to  incur  the  odium  of  attacking  the  prin- 
ciples of  Christianity.  Hence  they  seek  to  discover 
offenses  in  individual  Christians,  or  blemishes  in  some 
Church,  which  they  may  use  in  a  sort  of  "tu  quoque 
argument"  to  offset  the  condemnation  which  they 
feel  that  they  richly  deserve. 

The  Unpopular  God  and  His  Unpopular  Church. 

Cynicism  conforms  to  the  current  of  the  carnal 
mind;  therefore  it  is  very  easy  for  even  an  ordinary 
man,  or  woman,  to  say  bright  things  in  accusation 
of  the  good.  If  one  has  few  scruples  and  a  habit  of 
hatred,  he  is  amply  qualified  to  say  all  manner  of 
bitter  things  accompanied  with  a  measure  of  bright- 
ness. False  lights  frequently  shine  in  boggy  places 
as  the  result  of  the  rotting  processes  found  in  such 
places.  In  like  manner  there  are  coruscations  of 
corruption  thrown  off  by  malignant  minds. 

The  Church  of  God  includes  the  very  best  people 
living  on  the  earth,  and  it  is  the  only  hope  of  the 
world  for  redemption.  It  is  the  only  organization 
in  the  earth  that  has  ever  been  known  to  reform 
itself. 

The  seat  of  power  is  in  personality,  and  the  source 


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of  strength  in  personality  is  in  character.     What  a 
man  is  goes  farther  than  what  he  sai/s  or  does. 

Jesus  was  the  farthest  possible  removed  in  his 
earthly  ministry  from  the  methods  and  manners  of 
fussy,  modern  reformers,  who  in  superserviceable 
activity  run  to  and  fro  throughout  the  whole  earth, 
crying  in  strident  tones,  "Efficiency !  Efficiency !" 
No  man  has  ever  had  a  greater  "movement"  to  in- 
augurate than  had  Jesus,  but  he  did  not  strive  and 
cry  in  the  streets.  He  was  never  fussy  and  never 
hurried.  He  had  time  to  heal  outcast  lepers,  to  give 
sight  to  blind  beggars,  and  to  take  little  children  in 
his  arms  and  bless  them.  How  sublime  was  his  serene 
character !    How  divine !    How  efficient ! 

Systems  of  every  sort  inevitably  express  the  nature 
and  spirit  of  the  people  under  them,  and  when  bad 
men  take  hold  of  a  good  system  they  speedily  ruin  it. 

It  is  the  habit  of  shallow  men  to  delude  themselves 
and  deceive  others  with  catch  phrases.  They  are 
fond  also  of  playing  for  popular  applause.  Hence 
they  are  more  sensitive  interpreters  of  the  currents 
of  superficial  sentiment  than  they  are  wise  expound- 
ers of  eternal  truths. 

The  artesian  streams  which  refresh  and  renew 
waterless  plains  and  disease-stricken  districts  in  the 
lowlands  take  their  rise  in  distant  and  lofty  peaks  of 
mountain  ranges.  In  like  manner  the  forces  which 
renew  the  earth  must  descend  upon  man  from  the 
heavenly  hills. 


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Men  who  have  done  most  to  ameliorate  the  hard 
conditions  of  earthly  existence  have  lived  constantly 
in  the  light  of  the  heavenly  world. 

They  who  fear  not  God  do  not  regard  man.  The 
worshipful  are  the  merciful,  and  alms  flow  most  abun- 
dantly from  adoration. 

To  John  the  Baptist's  cry,  "The  kingdom  of  heav- 
en is  at  hand,"  men  of  all  classes  came  trembling  to 
his  baptism  of  repentance.  But  when  did  a  man  or 
a  nation  ever  repent  at  the  proclamation  of  any  of 
the  kingdoms  of  this  world? 

To  be  without  God  is  to  be  without  hope. 

Suicides  multiply  in  proportion  as  faith  in  God 
decreases. 

From  the  days  of  Hugo  Grotius  until  now  inter- 
national law  has  arisen  from  religious  inspiration 
and  thought. 

The  only  enduring  institution  for  uplifting  hu- 
manity and  redeeming  the  world  is  the  Church.  It 
is  wiser  than  all  the  "sociologists"  and  has  healed 
more  running  sores  of  human  ill  than  all  the  preten- 
tious "uplifters"  who  parade  their  programs  with 
delusive  "publicity."  When  all  the  "plague  of  pana- 
ceas" has  passed,  as  it  will  pass,  the  Christian 
Churches  will  still  be  doing  their  life-saving  work 
with  the  patience  of  faith  and  the  gentleness  of  love. 


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Some  preachers  beg  the  world  to  patronize  Christ. 
He  has  nothing  to  ask  of  men  but  their  hearts ;  and 
he  offers  himself  alone  as  the  exclusive  object  of  their 
affection. 

Virtue  is  more  needed  than  victuals.  Men  have 
more  goods  than  goodness ;  and  if  goodness  were 
more  common,  goods  would  be  even  more  plentiful. 

Prajer  nourishes  the  sense  of  responsibility  and 
invigorates  the  respect  for  duty  toward  one's  self, 
one's  family,  one's  neighbors,  and  one's  country.  It 
inspires  a  man  with  all  those  heaven-born  aspirations 
which  lead  him  to  become  a  useful  member  of  society. 
It  quickens  the  moral  nature  and  thereby  exalts  and 
strengthens  the  intellectual  faculties.  When  the 
Church  induces  men  and  women  to  lead  lives  of 
prayer,  it  stimulates  all  those  qualities  of  heart  and 
life  upon  which  even  the  material  welfare  of  mankind 
must  depend.  When  it  promotes  piety,  it  does  also 
advance  prosperity.  If  every  house  in  the  United 
States  were  a  house  of  prayer  and  every  soul  were  a 
soul  of  piety,  industry  would  abound  and  iniquity 
would  cease.  Human  want  would  be  submerged  with 
human  benevolence.  The  earth  would  yield  her  in- 
crease and  God,  even  our  own  God,  would  bless  us. 

No  people  has  ever  been  strong  enough  to  defy  the 
moral  law. 

To  the  Christianization  of  public  opinion  it  be- 
hooves every  good  man  to  address  himself. 

Mob  law  never  remedied  any  evil,  and  never  can. 


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When  a  human  being  is  lynched,  law  is  lynched ;  and 
that  means  the  destruction  and  demoralization  of 
society. 

Nothing  is  more  hard  and  selfish  and  reckless  than 
a  life  absorbed  in  pleasure-seeking;  it  neither  fears 
God  nor  regards  man.  Beneath  its  imperious  de- 
mands all  things  sacred  go  down. 

Multitudes  have  forgotten  the  value  of  worship 
in  God's  house  as  a  means  of  rest.  There  is  a  rest- 
fulness  in  withdrawing  the  mind  from  all  worldly  and 
temporal  things,  and  fixing  the  attention  upon  things 
spiritual  and  eternal,  which  cannot  be  found  in  any 
other  way. 

In  his  day  William  E.  Gladstone  was  the  busiest 
man  in  Great  Britain,  if  not  in  the  world,  and  Mr. 
Gladstone  found  in  worship  the  rest  by  which  his 
strength  was  continued  beyond  fourscore  years.  He 
attended  Church  services  twice  every  Sunday  with 
scrupulous  regularity  and  derided  with  the  name  of 
"Oncers"  those  people  who  went  to  church  once  only 
on  the  Sabbath. 

It  is  high  time  that  many  men  and  women,  who 
have  been  expending  their  energies  on  these  uplifting 
enterprises,  went  home.  Many  children  are  needing 
the  attention  of  their  mothers  very  sadly.  The  high- 
ways of  the  world  would  require  less  cleaning  if  more 
men  and  women  swept  before  their  own  doors.  Good 
people,  please  go  home  and  stay  at  home  for  a  few 
weeks,  and  give  the  world  a  rest  from  everlasting 


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tinkering  with  it.  Uplift  yourselves  a  bit  before 
undertaking  further  schemes  for  uplifting  all  man- 
kind with  your  complicated  schemes  of  levers  and 
pulleys. 

A  certain  writing  reformer  exhorts  the  Churches 
to  "proclaim  social  aims  worth  fighting  for,  not  a 
mere  selfish  gospel  of  safety."  Now  all  this  sounds 
very  fine,  but  it  is  in  truth  quite  shallow  and  utterly 
at  variance  with  the  teachings  of  Jesus  Christ.  More- 
over, it  is  contrary  to  the  facts  of  history  and  the 
principles  of  Christian  experience.  When  the 
Churches  cease  to  preach  the  imperative  necessity 
of  individual  salvation,  the  sum  of  social  reform  and 
public  benevolence  will  be  dangerously  diminished 
among  men.  The  sources  of  all  good  are  found  in 
the  springs  of  individual  faith;  and  when  these  are 
dried  up,  moral  and  social  life  withers  in  a  parching 
atmosphere  of  worldliness. 

A  man  must  become  good  himself  before  he  can 
do  good  successfully.     (Matt.  vii.  3-5.) 

It  is  of  the  essence  of  Pharisaism  to  start  with  the 
assumption  that  a  man's  own  soul  needs  nothing  of 
attention  from  him,  but  that  he  should  give  himself 
wholly  to  doing  something  for  his  neighbors. 

So  think  some  modern  Pharisees,  who  thank  God 
that  they  are  not  as  the  common  run  of  preachers 
and  the  self-centered  Churches. 

A  great  deal  of  what  goes  for  "broadmindedness" 
is  nothing  more  nor  less  than  intellectual  indolence 


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and  indifference  with  reference  to  ascertaining  and 
defending  truth. 

When  men  accept  the  notion  that  anything  may 
be  true,  they  in  effect  believe  that  everything  may  be 
false.  In  such  a  state  of  mind,  of  course,  they  will 
prate  of  catholicity  in  order  to  conceal  lack  of  the 
courage  of  conviction. 

Christianity  is  a  remedial  system,  and  no  remedy 
for  any  ailment  is  to  be  discredited  and  declared 
ineffective  unless  it  has  failed  after  it  has  been  taken 
according  to  directions. 

In  default  of  the  world-wide  subjection  to  Jesus 
Christ,  nations  must  expect  wars  and  rumors  of 
wars;  if  they  will  not  submit  to  Christ,  they  will 
never  live  in  peace  with  each  other.  If  they  will  not 
love  the  divine  Father,  they  will  never  respect  the 
human  brother. 

The  world  war  enters  judgment  against  seculari- 
zation in  education,  writing  the  judgment  in  letters 
of  flaming  fire  which  all  mankind  may  read  in  the 
lurid  skies  which  bend  over  the  contending  armies 
by  day  and  by  night.  A  mere  increase  of  knowledge, 
unaccompanied  by  a  purification  of  motives,  results 
in  increasing  immoral  power ;  and  power  divested  of 
morality  always  works  ruin. 

The  apostolic  conception  of  the  Church  is  that  of 
a  family,  sprung  from  the  same  Father,  gathered 
about  him  and  called  by  his  name.    We  talk  of  "fash- 


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ionable  Churches"  and  "people's  Churches" — mon- 
strous descriptives,  when  applied  to  the  Church, 
which  do  not  shock  us  because  we  note  more  con- 
sciously the  facts  of  fashion  and  democracy  than  we 
experience  profoundly  the  unearthly  life  which  pro- 
ceeds from  personal  knowledge  of  our  risen  Lord. 
Such  terms  can  have  no  place  in  the  vocabulary  of 
an  apostolic  Christianity.  They  belong  to  the  dia- 
lect of  a  Christianity  which  has  denied  its  Lord,  and 
whose  speech  betrayeth  it  to  an  accusing  world  what 
time  it  seeks  to  warm  itself  by  the  fires  of  a  dis- 
credited ecclesiasticism. 

It  is  said  that  "one  touch  of  nature  makes  the 
whole  world  kin,"  but  far  more  truly  may  it  be  said 
that  one  touch  of  the  supernatural  makes  the  whole 
universe  akin.     (Eph.  ii.  13-22.) 

We  shall  never  know  and  love  man  as  our  brother 
until  we  have  found  God  as  our  Father. 

Wesley  and  his  contemporaries  restored  Christian 
fellowship  by  restoring  Christian  experience. 

Does  natural  birth  bind  men  together  in  the  tender 
bonds  of  brotherly  love?  Much  more  does  the  new 
birth  bind  them  together. 

The  good  which  we  will  not  do  we  are  very  much 
inclined  to  damn. 

Return  to  respect  for  fixed  principles.  Right  is 
right  and  wrong  is  wrong;  neither  in  this  world  nor 


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any  other  can  the  eternal  distinctions  between  moral 
good  and  moral  evil  be  effaced  without  the  subversion 
of  moral  order. 

Great  men  cannot  spring  from  nebulous  moral 
convictions,  and  great  religious  results  cannot  be 
brought  to  pass  by  nerveless  preachments  of  senti- 
mental gush. 

Well-settled  principles  are  commonplace  like  the 
commonplace  air  which  men  must  breathe  to  live,  the 
commonplace  sunshine,  and  the  commonplace  rain. 

We  need  now  a  period  of  aggressive  and  active 
conservatism.  Without  such  a  counter-movement 
against  radicalism,  we  shall  live  to  see  the  ordinary 
principles  of  common  morality  called  in  question. 

There  is  no  antagonism  between  "property  rights" 
and  "human  rights,"  Property  has  no  rights,  but 
one  of  the  most  sacred  human  rights  is  the  right  to 
hold  property. 

To  the  first  preachers  of  the  gospel  Jesus  said  on 
a  most  memorable  occasion,  "Have  faith  in  God" ; 
and  the  exhortation  needs  repeating  to  a  vast  num- 
ber of  ministers  of  the  gospel  to-day. 

In  the  "blue-back  speller"  we  used  to  read,  "The 
preacher  preaches  the  gospel" ;  but  that  book  is  out 
of  date.  "The  up-to-date  preacher"  preaches  almost 
everything  else  but  the  gospel. 


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The  one  business,  and  the  exclusive  business,  of 
the  Church  is  to  produce  and  promote  spiritual  life 
among  men,  to  make  converts  and  edify  believers. 

Lynchers  lynch  the  law.  When  the  law  is  lynched, 
the  safeguards  of  government,  which  shield  and  pro- 
tect all  lives,  are  pulled  down;  and  when  these  are 
overthrown  every  man  lives  in  greater  or  less  jeop- 
ardy every  hour.  For  let  us  be  well  assured  that  the 
spirit  of  lawlessness  tends  always  to  extend  itself, 
and  when  tolerated  it  may  do  violence  to  a  citizen  of 
any  class  and  on  any  pretext  before  it  has  run  its 
evil  course. 

Lynching  is  itself  a  crime,  and  crime  can  never  be 
the  cure  of  crime. 

This  professor  tells  us  that  even  a  speaking  teach- 
er in  the  person  of  himself,  a  learned  scientist,  could 
not  teach  a  modern  monkey  to  utter  a  word.  If  this 
highly  developed  scientist  cannot  teach  a  monkey 
of  to-day  to  speak,  pray  tell  us  how  some  ancient 
ancestral  ape  could  have  ever  started  this  business 
of  talking? 

A  child  whose  mother  cares  more  for  society  than 
for  it  is  something  worse  than  an  orphan. 

Christianity  is  first  of  all  a  matter  of  the  heart ; 
and  if  the  heart  be  filled  with  it,  out  of  the  Christian 
abundance  of  the  soul  will  the  mouth  speak  and  the 
hands  toil. 

True  religion  manifests  its  most  beautiful  and  ten- 
der forms  in  the  quiet  places  of  life.     The  Christ 


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carried  the  sorrow  and  sin  of  a  whole  world  upon 
his  sacrificial  shoulders,  but  he  had  time  and  heart 
to  take  little  children  in  his  arms  and  bless  them. 

The  mania  for  publicity  produces  heroics,  but  not 
heroism. 

The  most  heroic  man  I  have  ever  seen  was  one 
who  sacrificed  all  his  ambitions  and  worldly  prospects 
in  order  to  care  for  three  invalid  sisters  who  did  not 
so  much  as  understand  the  unearthly  motive  which 
glorified  his  own  life  and  blessed  theirs. 

Too  many  educators  are  failing  to  put  first  things 
first,  and  thereby  they  are  producing  a  type  of  cul- 
ture so  filled  with  feverish  ambition  that  its  influence 
will  wither  the  sweetest  things  in  life  and  blight 
homes  which  a  truer  culture  would  bless. 

Faith  in  God  as  the  Almighty  One  is  the  only  basis 
upon  which  to  hope  for  human  perfectibility,  or  as- 
pire to  the  highest  heights  of  holiness.  If  feeble  and 
fallible  man  is  utterly  separated  from  an  Almighty 
Father,  then  he  may  well  despair  of  ever  attaining 
to  the  loftiest  spiritual  excellence. 

To  reveal  to  men  a  high  moral  standard,  without 
at  the  same  time  revealing  to  them  a  personal  God, 
of  impeccable  purity  and  limitless  power,  coupled 
with  fatherly  sympathy,  is  to  plunge  them  into  moral 
hopelessness. 

The  human  mind  is  capable  of  accumulating  a  re- 
serve power,  and  it  is  the  possession  of  such  power 


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that  enables  some  men  to  overcome  with  splendid 
ability  the  difficulties  of  unexpected  situations.  In 
the  intellectual  strength  of  such  men  there  are  no 
evidences  of  strained  resources ;  they  rise  above  per- 
plexing obstacles  with  what  seems  to  be  effortless 
ease.  But  their  reserve  power  is  not  so  much  a  mat- 
ter of  nature  as  it  is  the  result  of  patient  and  per- 
sistent acquisitiveness ;  through  days  and  years  they 
have  laid  by  stores  upon  which  they  are  able  to  draw 
in  times  of  need. 

Parsimonious  piety  is  always  perilous.  The  fatal 
mistake  of  the  foolish  virgins  was  the  effort  to  attend 
the  marriage  celebration  at  the  smallest  possible  cost. 

Moral  reserves  are  accumulated  by  daily  deposits 
of  right  actions,  made  under  the  all-dominating  pur- 
pose of  serving  God  without  regard  to  cost.  These 
are  the  provident  souls  who  resolve  to  be  religious  at 
all  cost. 

For  the  crises  of  life  men  must  be  prepared  in  the 
secret  places  of  their  souls. 

An  age  of  doubt  very  easily  becomes  an  age  of 
superstition,  especially  when  the  souls  of  men  are 
tried  by  great  griefs.  Saul,  the  first  King  of  Israel, 
having  forsaken  the  God  of  Israel,  turned  to  the 
Witch  of  Endor  when  he  was  threatened  with  calami- 
ty in  battle. 

To  ask  a  medium  to  supplement  the  revelation  of 
our  Father  in  heaven  in  order  to  make  it  sufficient 


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for  our  guidance  and  comfort  is  to  dishonor  God 
and  damage  the  human  soul.  These  superstitious 
practices  impeach  both  the  wisdom  and  goodness  of 
God;  for  they  imply  that  God  has  denied  men  the 
light  they  need  concerning  the  spiritual  world  and 
eternal  life. 

The  Christian  life  is  a  personally  conducted  jour- 
ney. Life  cannot  be  pursued  with  a  program  ar- 
ranged beforehand  by  human  wisdom.  To  one  stand- 
ing at  its  outset  God  gives  no  blue  print  of  the  way 
to  be  pursued,  but  offers  his  Fatherly  hand  to  guide 
and  guard.  And  this  is  far  better  than  any  other 
plan  of  life.  It  is  not  possible  that  human  wisdom 
should  be  sufficient  to  plan  a  human  life.  Men  have 
no  foresight  adequate  for  such  planning.  The  con- 
tingencies of  sickness  and  health,  adversity  and  pros- 
perity, defeat  and  triumph,  are  too  numerous  and 
too  uncontrollable  for  such  far-reaching  planning  of 
the  limited  faculties  of  men.  For  the  sake  of  life 
human  beings  need  an  omniscient  and  omnipotent 
guide.  A  supreme  difficulty  confronts  every  man  on 
entering  life  in  the  fact  that  he  has  no  experience 
of  his  own,  and  he  is  entering  upon  a  road  over  which 
no  other  man  ever  passed  before  Him ;  for  each  life 
goes  along  a  way  never  trod  by  any  other  human 
being.  The  position  of  each  of  us  is  peculiar ;  hence 
we  require  personal  direction  that  we  may  not  miss 
the  divine  purpose  in  our  lives  nor  mar  God's  plan 
for  us.  The  life  work  of  any  man  who  leads  a  Chris- 
tian life  is  that  to  which  God  points  him,  and  there 
is  no  way  to  prepare  for  it  except  to  do  the  will  of 
God  day  by  day. 


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The  resurrection  eternalizes,  exalts,  and  spiritual- 
izes the  incarnation. 

The  end  of  all  efforts  of  men  without  God's  aid 
and  guidance  is  confusion  of  tongues.  The  best 
political  structures  and  governmental  devices  of  such 
men  are  not  more  than  the  repetition  of  the  disap- 
pointing efforts  of  the  builders  of  Babel  who  sought 
to  erect  a  mechanical  contrivance  which  should  at 
once  supply  a  rallying  center  for  men  on  earth  and 
a  scaling  ladder  by  which  to  climb  into  the  skies. 

The  care  of  the  current  rationalism  of  our  times 
is  the  desire  to  get  rid  of  any  supernatural  element 
in  religion.  The  rationalists  in  the  pulpit  scout  the 
inspiration  of  the  Scriptures,  deride  the  incarnation, 
deny  the  virgin  birth,  and  repudiate  the  resurrection 
of  Jesus.  They  presume  to  question  the  Hebrew 
prophets,  who  claim  to  speak  at  the  command  of  God, 
and  they  refuse  to  allow  that  the  Christ  of  God  had 
either  a  supernatural  entrance  into  the  world  or  a 
supernatural  exit  from  it.  Most  logically  they  pro- 
ceed then  to  reduce  all  Christian  experience  to  the 
plane  of  naturalism,  and  we  hear  now  in  the  pulpits 
terms  employed  to  define  and  describe  conversion 
which  can  mean  nothing  else  than  that  no  divine  ele- 
ment enters  into  it.  Religion  is  defined  as  "the  re- 
sponse of  man  to  an  eternal  energy  within  his  soul" 
and  the  ordering  of  his  life  in  accordance  with  that 
response.  Christian  life  is  "character  building"  by 
processes  of  natural  instruction  and  a  careful  regard 
for  environment.  Mankind  is  to  be  renovated  by 
processes  of  eugenics  rather  than  by  divine  forces 


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of  regeneration.  Now,  whatever  else  all  this  sort  of 
thing  may  be,  it  is  most  certainly  not  Christianity, 
No  man  of  clear  understanding  can  fail  to  see  this, 
and  no  candid  man  will  deny  it.  The  terms  in  which 
Christ  and  the  apostles  express  the  Christian  life, 
in  both  its  beginning  and  progress,  set  forth  that 
life  as  a  most  supernatural  and  unearthly  thing. 
Placed  alongside  such  a  heavenly  experience,  how 
worse  than  worthless  appears  the  poor  stuff  of  nat- 
uralism in  religion !  Ah !  men  have  had  enough  of 
this  trash.  Back  to  God,  the  Redeemer  of  the  Soul ! 
Back  to  the  Father's  embrace  and  the  Father's  house ! 
Away  with  the  husks  that  even  swine  cannot  eat  with- 
out hurt ! 

A  sincere  soul  earnestly  seeking  God  cannot  fail 
to  find  him.  This  is  what  we  should  expect  in  view 
of  the  fact  that  God  is  our  Father.  What  father 
would  fail  to  show  himself  to  his  lost  child,  if  he 
heard  that  child  crying  in  the  darkness  and  calling 
for  him.'* 

The  purpose  of  all  Churches  and  all  preaching 
should  be  to  bring  men  to  God. 

Men  cannot  find  God  by  "seeking  religion."  The 
Scriptures  nowhere  teach  us  to  seek  religion;  but 
they  constantly  command  us  to  seek  God. 

To  souls  that  hunger  for  him  our  God  is  the 
unavoidable  God.  They  cannot  miss  him  who  seek 
him. 

Conversions,  not  battles,  are  the  decisive  events 


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of  history.  The  conversion  of  Saul  of  Tarsus 
changed  the  face  of  the  world  in  the  first  century, 
and  the  conversion  of  John  Wesley  changed  the  his- 
tory of  the  English-speaking  world  in  the  eighteenth 
century. 

It  is  no  accident  that  the  greatest  national  pros- 
perity and  political  security  coincide  with  the  area 
where  the  Bible  is  most  sincerely  believed  and  con- 
stantly read. 

There  are  some  who  talk  of  "character-building," 
but  such  a  phrase  is  absolutely  absurd.  Character 
is  a  thing  of  spiritual  growth.  We  can  make  dolls, 
making  them  smaller  or  larger  at  will;  but  children 
must  be  born  and  brought  up. 

Men  cannot  be  improved  like  potatoes  for  the  very 
simple  reason  that  they  are  not  potatoes.  The  free- 
dom of  the  will  is  the  main  factor  on  the  human  side 
of  the  spiritual  life,  and  potatoes  have  no  will  at  all. 
Plants  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Burbank  are  subject  to 
his  will,  but  his  will  is  not  subject  to  them  in  any 
degree.  Mr.  Burbank  cannot  even  create  life  in  a 
plant,  to  say  nothing  of  quickening  spiritual  life  In 
a  human  soul.  He  could  not  make  a  sassafras  bush, 
let  alone  a  saint. 

If  one  may  be  permitted  to  coin  a  word,  It  may 
be  said  that  the  human  race  must  be  redeemed  by  a 
process  of  heavenly  regenics  and  not  by  any  method 
of  earthly  eugenics. 

He  w]ho  was  at  His  birth  laid  in  a  manger  because 
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there  was  "no  room  for  him  in  the  inn,"  and  who  lived 
on  earth  a  homeless  life,  hath  set  the  solitary  in  fam- 
ilies and  given  us  homes. 

The  best  conception  of  heaven  is  to  think  of  it  as 
our  Father's  house  where  he  waits  to  welcome  his 
tired  children.  God  wants  his  children  at  home.  He 
permitted  them  to  stay  with  us  until  he  could  spare 
them  no  longer.  "Precious  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord 
is  the  death  of  his  saints" — precious  as  the  home- 
coming of  our  own  dear  children.  Yet  we  v/ished  his 
children,  whom  he  has  called  away  this  year,  to  stay 
overtime  with  us ;  and  we  grieve  because  he  has  called 
them  to  himself.  This  is  our  infirmity.  In  faith 
deeper  than  our  wounded  sensibilities  we  can  say 
nevertheless,  "Blessed  Lord,  thou  art  welcome  to 
thine  own,  both  thine  and  ours,  though  we  long  to 
have  back  what  we  would  not  retake.  Keep  them 
and  us  in  thine  own  tender  care,  and  let  us  also  come 
home  as  soon  as  is  best." 

The  middle-aged  wrestle  less  than  do  young  men 
with  flesh  and  blood;  but  they  must  wrestle  more 
against  evil  spirits  in  the  high  and  invisible  places 
of  the  soul,  where  men  battle  in  the  dark  and  fall 
without  the  knowledge  of  their  nearest  friends  and 
closest  kindred. 

A  man  who  is  constantly  brooding  over  his  rights 
inevitably  thinks  little  of  the  rights  of  others  and 
still  less  of  his  own  duties  to  others. 

Jesus  taught  us  that  "life  consistcth  not  in  the 


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abundance  of  the  things  a  man  possesseth,"  and,  if 
this  be  true,  it  follows  that  death  consisteth  not  in 
the  want  of  things. 

There  is  one  very  high  right  which  a  man  may 
assert  with  the  greatest  earnestness  always  and  with- 
out harm  to  himself  or  injury  to  others.  It  is  the 
right  which  every  one  has  to  renounce  his  rights  in 
favor  of  others.    That  was  the  mind  of  Jesus  Christ. 

The  Christian  religion  promotes  the  production  of 
wealth  and  the  spirit  of  freedom.  And  if  it  does  not 
at  the  same  time  extirpate  in  the  same  measure  self- 
ishness and  self-assertion  and  quicken  the  sense  of 
duty,  it  must  end  in  self-destruction. 

Rights  are  great  things  doubtless,  but  duties  are 
greater.    Liberty  is  much,  but  life  in  Christ  is  more. 

A  fatalist  cannot  truly  pray. 

Against  the  naturalism  of  Egypt  God  sent  Moses 
and  the  ten  plagues.  Against  Baalism  the  Lord  sent 
Elijah,  the  prophet,  in  the  days  of  Ahab,  and  hung 
at  his  servant's  girdle  the  keys  of  heaven  to  withhold 
or  send  rain  at  will.  Let  us  hear  the  word  of  the 
Lord  and  not  the  prattling  nonsense  of  the  natural- 
ists. Nature,  including  rain  and  sunshine,  is  still  the 
servant  of  God,  and  not  his  master. 

Joshua  was  assured  of  the  divine  presence  by  which 
Moses  had  been  guided  and  blessed,  and  he  was  ex- 
horted to  perfect  obedience  to  the  divine  law.     This 


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formula  furnishes  the  key  to  the  problems  of  any 
future. 

The  conscience  of  mankind  is  deathless,  and  its 
voice  will  speak  at  last  in  the  commanding  tones  of 
righteousness. 

The  path  of  safety  is  the  way  of  righteousness. 

God  is  not  so  nicely  poised  on  his  throne  that  he 
dare  not  allow  men  to  be  free  lest  they  defeat  the 
ends  of  the  divine  government. 

For  him  who  Avalks  with  God  any  future,  however 
dark  and  unknown,  holds  a  "Land  of  Promise." 

The  world  will  not  be  safe  for  democracy,  nor 
democracy  for  the  world,  unless  the  hearts  of  men  are 
regenerated,  and  it  does  not  appear  that  there  is  any 
power  equal  to  the  regeneration  of  the  souls  of  man 
except  the  saving  grace  of  Jesus  Christ. 

The  standard  of  the  average  life  does  not  comport 
with  the  requirements  of  the  Christian  profession. 
The  world  crucifies  the  very  bad,  as  it  did  the  two 
thieves  who  were  crucified  with  Jesus.  It  also  exe- 
cutes the  very  good,  as  it  did  the  Saviour.  The  scene 
on  Calvary  was  an  exact  index  of  the  spirit  of  the 
world.  The  world  crucified  the  thieves  because  they 
were  too  bad  to  live,  and  it  crucified  the  Lord  of 
glory  because  he  was  too  good.  No  average  man  was 
ever  crucified  since  history  began  to  be  recorded. 
The  average  man  is  never  the  crucified,  but  always 
the  crucifier. 


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A  Christian  may  not  do  what  is  perfectly  natural 
with  men ;  he  must  do  what  with  men  is  supernatural, 
and  he  must  live  in  conformity  to  the  higher  natural- 
ness which  belongs  to  one  who  has  been  born  again. 

The  unearthly  forces  of  grace  which  are  engaged 
for  the  birth  of  the  Christian  life  and  the  growth  of 
Christian  character  would  be  directed  at  a  result  far 
below  their  potential  nature  if  they  were  aimed  at 
anything  lower  than  Christian  perfection.  They  call 
for  supramundane  living,  and  they  supply  the  spir- 
itual energy  by  which  such  living  may  be  realized. 

There  have  been  men,  calling  themselves  preachers, 
who  have  yielded  to  the  insidious  worldliness  of  wish- 
ing to  think  and  talk  like  men  of  the  world  rather 
than  square  their  beliefs  and  teachings  with  the  ora- 
cles of  God.  By  their  pretentious  pulpiteering  they 
have  done  no  little  harm  to  ignorant  people. 

It  is  time  for  us  to  assert  the  essential  importance 
of  human  nature ;  it  is  time  to  believe,  with  the  Psalm- 
ist, that  man  is  a  little  lower  than  the  angels  and  to 
repudiate  the  doctrine  that  he  is  only  a  little  higher 
than  the  monkeys. 

The  world  will  not  be  renovated  by  eugenics.  It 
must  be  redeemed  by  regeneration. 

The  area  of  human  progress  is  never  greater  than 
that  of  the  moral  conquests  of  mankind.  The  true 
man  is  neither  a  pessimist  nor  an  optimist.  He  is  a 
meliorist  who  faces  the  fact  that  the  world  is  not 
altogether  good,  and  earnestly  tries  to  make  it  better. 


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What  a  man  believes  about  Christ  touches  the  very 
springs  of  life. 

Jesus's  words  comport  with  his  character.  His 
language  befits  him  as  a  crown  becomes  a  king. 

Diabolic  character  and  orthodox  belief  may  coexist 
in  the  same  man.    (  Jas.  ii.  19.) 

The  worst  atheism  is  that  which  believes  there  is  a 
God,  but  lives  as  if  there  were  no  God. 

The  mighty  spirits  of  prophets,  apostles,  and 
martyrs,  by  whose  lofty  lives  and  heroic  labors  all 
the  moral  progress  of  the  human  race  has  been  ac- 
complished, moved  through  the  earth  under  the  pow- 
erful momentum  of  heavenly  motives  which  pierced 
within  the  veil  of  eternal  life.  Beside  the  heroic 
figures  of  Moses  and  Paul  how  poor  and  paltry  ap- 
pears the  part  played  by  such  persons  as  George 
Eliot,  with  their  doubts  and  denunciations  of  "other- 
worldliness" ! 

Water  cannot  rise  higher  than  the  level  of  its 
source,  and  in  like  manner  no  life  can  rise  higher  than 
the  spring  of  its  motives. 

All  pure  and  permanent  humanitarianism  takes  its 
rise  in  the  heavenly  world;  it  issues  from  the  river 
of  life  that  flows  hard  by  the  throne  of  God. 

That  is  truly  a  "distressed  faith"  which  sends  up 
rockets  to  attract  the  attention  of  the  great  of  earth 
and  pleads  for  them  to  come  to  its  rescue  with  some 


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sort  of  life-saving  apparatus  composed  of  compli- 
mentary concessions  to  the  Christ.  Whether  fash- 
ionable men  and  women  accept  or  reject  Christianity, 
the  truth  of  our  holy  religion  is  not  affected  in  the 
slightest  degree  by  their  opinions ;  but  the  destiny 
or  doom  of  leaders  of  what  is  called  "society"  will  be 
determined  by  the  eternal  and  unshakable  truths  of 
Christianity. 

"What  sort  of  Christianity  is  demanded  by  the 
times?"  It  is  a  silly  question.  The  matter  of  real 
importance  is,  what  sort  of  times  does  Christianity 
demand  ? 

Liberalism  is  not  able  to  sing  its  cold  creeds  of 
negation.  Liberalism  pretends  to  great  culture  and 
affects  literary  airs ;  but  it  cannot  sing.  It  has  no 
joy  in  its  breast  and  therefore  no  great  hymns  rise 
from  its  lips.     It  can  neither  sing  nor  save. 

All  forms  of  wrong  are  gregarious  and  fall  into 
flocks. 

The  philosophy  of  the  solidarity  of  evil  is  obvious. 
The  moral  law  is  one,  and  when  it  is  violated  at  any 
point  it  is  virtually  set  aside  at  all  points.  Hence 
there  is  sympathy  between  wrong-doers,  although  the 
forms  of  their  wrongdoing  may  vary  greatly. 

Moral  progress  will  continue.  The  concurrent 
forces  of  the  divine  Providence  and  the  Holy  Spirit 
insure  this  progress,  and  these  forces  will  constant- 
ly create  conditions  in  which  long-established  evils 
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In  the  long  run  only  the  good  can  possibly  survive. 
And  since  men  and  women  are  immortal  they  should 
take  account  always  of  the  long  run — the  long,  long 
run  of  eternity. 

There  is  nothing  more  pitiful  in  our  day  than  the 
cringing  spirit  in  which  some  preachers  and  Churches 
approach  the  world.  They  come  with  the  gospel, 
and  the  godless  world  in  effect  says  to  them :  "Begone 
with  your  poor  gospel  which  butters  no  parsnips ! 
Go  and  bring  me  something  to  eat  and  something  to 
wear  and  fix  me  a  bath  and  raise  my  wages,  and  then 
I  may  be  disposed  to  hear  you  talk  about  your  reli- 
gion." Instantly  they  hurry  away  to  get  the  things 
ordered,  and  as  they  go  they  begin  to  cry  "Social 
service !  Social  service !  That  is  the  only  gospel 
which  the  world  will  take."  Such  was  not  the  method 
of  Paul,  the  apostle  to  the  Gentiles,  who  did  more  to 
remove  the  ills  of  society  in  the  first  century  than  any 
and  all  the  men  of  his  day. 

The  Christly  life  of  service  to  God  is  the  most 
serviceable  life  to  men. 

We  are  too  short-sighted  to  know  what  will  do  the 
most  good  in  the  long  run ;  but  when  we  seek  to  do 
God's  will,  we  may  be  sure  that  we  are  doing  what 
will  most  bless  mankind. 

The  programs  of  atheistic  altruism  pass  away ;  but 
the  work  of  him  who  doeth  the  will  of  God  abideth 
forever. 


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Most  of  the  current  unrest  about  the  social  system, 
as  it  now  stands,  is  selfish  in  its  motives  and  sinful 
in  its  methods. 

The  life  of  Christ  in  the  individual  soul  must  give 
a  Christly  character  to  the  social  system.  Social 
salvation  must  come  as  the  fruit  of  personal  salva- 
tion. 

We  must  have  fewer  "box-parties"  at  the  theaters 
and  more  family  altars  in  our  homes. 

Christmas  is  preeminently  the  feast  of  the  family. 
In  it  we  celebrate  the  birth  of  Him  in  whom  all  the 
families  of  the  earth  are  blessed. 

The  life  of  the  republic  cannot  survive  the  death 
of  the  family. 

The  home  is  being  clubbed  to  death.  There  are 
literary  clubs,  dancing  clubs,  card  clubs,  clubs  for  all 
manner  of  pseudo-reforms,  and  clubs  for  pretentious 
"social  service." 

Let  all  of  us  go  home  more  and  stay  there  longer, 
for  the  sake  of  our  own  souls  and  for  the  welfare  of 
our  children. 

What  shall  a  man  take  in  exchange  for  his  home? 
It  is  the  best  thing  on  earth,  and  the  very  type  of 
heaven  itself. 

Holiness  is  the  highest  attainment  of  humanity. 


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When  a  man's  religious  labor  outgrows  his  reli- 
gious life,  it  is  fatal  to  both. 

If  the  Church  can  promote  holiness  in  men,  it  will 
bring  to  pass  all  other  good  ;  but  if  it  cannot,  through 
the  gospel,  create  saints,  the  doing  of  anything  else 
is  not  worth  its  effort. 

Some  men  talk  flippantly  of  the  inspiration  of  the 
Bible.  There  is  some  quality  in  this  book,  or  rather 
some  quality  in  this  collection  of  books,  not  found  in 
any  other  writings ;  and  whatever  we  may  call  this 
quality,  it  is  something  without  which  men  cannot 
get  on  well.  Perhaps  we  might  as  well  call  it  inspira- 
tion, as  our  fathers  were  accustomed  to  name  it. 

It  will  be  time  enough  to  denounce  and  renounce 
the  Bible  when  the  rationalists  and  liberalists  have 
brought  us  something  better  by  which  to  live.  That 
time  does  not  seem  to  be  near  at  hand. 

The  material  universe  was  created  for  moral  and 
spiritual  ends ;  and  its  history  in  the  future,  as  in  the 
past,  will  unfold  under  the  direction  of  a  divine  moral 
purpose,  which  will  culminate  in  a  blessed  spiritual 
result  in  the  end. 

The  burning  of  a  world  can  no  more  affect  for  ill  a 
good  man  than  it  can  harm  God  himself. 

Most  enfeebling  of  all  mental  habits  is  the  habit 
of  self-pity.  Self-pity  forestalls  all  real  penitence 
and  prevents   any  purifying  change   of  moral   life. 


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The  man  who  indulges  it  drugs  his  soul  into  helpless- 
ness by  the  use  of  a  pleasing  narcotic.  He  becomes 
incapable  of  resolute  righteousness  by  pleading  the 
strength  of  his  feelings  as  against  the  weakness  of  his 
will.  Why  should  he  blame  himself  for  what  he  be- 
lieves that  he  is  powerless  to  overcome? 

The  only  event  on  earth  which  the  Scriptures  as- 
sure us  stirs  jo}^  in  heaven  is  the  penitence  of  a  sinner. 

Nothing  in  our  world  of  sin  has  such  significance 
to  God  as  a  man.  In  nothing  is  God  so  interested  as 
in  human  redemption. 

The  highest  thing  in  human  nature  is  its  spiritual 
character,  and  its  summum  honum  is  its  spiritual 
good. 

The  world  must  be  a  Christian  world,  if  it  is  to  be 
at  all. 

We  cannot  spread  the  gospel  unless  we  submit  our- 
selves to  it.  It  is  the  peculiar  property  of  moral 
truth  that  he  only  can  teach  it  successfully  who 
obeys  it. 

In  the  long  run  that  only  will  be  found  practicable 
which  is  right. 

The  cry  of  the  Old  Year  to  the  New  Year  is :  Hold 
fast  to  the  good  things  and  make  them  better  as  fast 
as  you  can. 

Jesus  alone  of  those  born  of  women  chose  himself 


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to  be  born,  and  took  his  lowly  station  bj  his  own 
volition. 

Christ  is  the  best  revelation  of  God  we  can  have, 
an.d  he  is  equally  the  best  exposition  of  man. 

The  race  of  man  is  to  be  lifted  up  by  heaven-sent 
prophets,  preaching  redemption  through  Jesus 
Christ,  and  not  by  clerical  Burbanks  crossing  types 
and  developing  new  varieties. 

The  moral  forces  are  the  saving  salt  in  the  life  of 
any  people. 

Morality  cannot  survive  the  death  of  religion.  An 
ethical  system  of  mere  prudential  principles  is  always 
and  everywhere  ineffectual  for  the  right  direction 
and  control  of  human  conduct. 

The  powers  of  the  upper  world  must  get  hold  of 
men  in  order  to  restrain  passion  and  inspire  virtue 
in  the  world  below. 

There  is  no  necessary  moral  evil.  Evil  is  necessary 
to  the  vicious  only.  If  we  could  admit  that  there 
was  one  immorality  in  the  world  that  was  a  necessity, 
we  would  be  forced  to  believe  that  there  is  no  God  in 
the  heavens,  or  that  God  is  immoral.  Such  atheism 
is  blasphemy. 

History  is  a  divinely  ordered  movement  which  must 
reach  its  culmination  some  day  in  final  things  of  a 
religious  nature. 


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He  who  would  dilute  our  faith  with  doubts,  or 
paralyze  our  consecration  with  enfeebling  specula- 
tions, is  doing  a  diabolic  thing. 

In  the  beginning  was  God  and  in  the  end  God  must 
be;  for  he  is  the  Alpha  and  the  Omega  of  creation 
and  history. 

Indulgence  in  any  wrong  blinds  the  mind  to  its 
wrongness. 

Dancing  in  any  form  invariably  runs  into  the  most 
reprehensible  forms.  That  is  a  doubtful  diversion 
which  seems  to  exist  under  a  law  of  degeneration. 
If  the  moral  gravitation  of  a  thing  is  toward  immor- 
ality, it  is  a  thing  to  be  avoided,  especially  by  the 
young.     Such  is  the  case  with  dancing. 

There  are  theologians,  claiming  to  be  men  of  "ad- 
vanced thought,"  who  are  ever  trying  to  minimize  the 
supernatural  in  the  Scriptures.  Carried  to  their 
logical  consequences,  the  theories  of  these  men  mean 
that  God  is  so  entangled  in  the  meshes  of  natural 
forces  that  he  has  lost  his  freedom,  and  that  therefore 
he  can  do  little  miracles,  but  not  big  ones ;  that  he 
might  dry  up  a  spring  branch,  but  would  find  a  sea 
or  a  swollen  river  too  much  for  him. 

A  free  God  still  lives,  and  reigns,  and  hears  the 
prayers  of  them  who  seek  him  aright. 

Blessed  is  the  man  who,  amid  all  the  burdens  and 
cares  and  responsibilities  of  his  mature  life,  retains 


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the  faith  which  he  learned  at  his  mother's  knee  and 
continues  to  pray  to  the  God  of  her  who  first  taught 
him  to  say  at  nightfall,  "Now  I  lay  me  down  to 
sleep."  As  the  shadows  of  life's  eventide  gather 
about  him,  its  long  day  of  toil  drawing  to  its  close, 
let  him  pass  to  her  in  the  brighter  world  above  with 
the  words  of  the  little  prayer  trembling  upon  his 
dying  lips,  "Now  I  lay  me  down  to  sleep."  Let  us 
pray !    Let  us  pray  always,  and  not  faint. 

The  most  compelling  and  majestic  element  in  our 
human  nature  is  that  which  we  call  conscience.  It  is 
deathless.  In  age  extreme,  when  appetite  has  grown 
dull  and  desire  is  dead,  conscience  will  show  itself 
strong  and  authoritative. 

The  salvation  of  Christ  is  so  satisfying  to  the  con- 
science that  it  has  brought  many  souls  into  a  state  of 
rapture  when  they  have  found  deliverance  through  it 
from  a  sense  of  guilt. 

When  men  pet  their  personal  peculiarities  and 
fondle  their  follies,  they  become  disagreeable  to  all 
around  them  and  impair  their  influence  for    good. 

There  is  always  an  element  of  insincerity  in  the 
men  and  women  who  seek  to  emphasize  their  personal 
peculiarities.  They  seem  to  be  constantly  saying, 
"I  thank  God  I  am  not  as  other  men  are."  It  might 
do  them  good  to  know  that  other  men  are  thankful 
for  the  same  reason. 

Men   who   have   not   toiled   for   what   they   have, 


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whether  it  be  knowledge  or  money,  never  know  how 
to  use  it. 

Human  virtue  is  won  by  struggle ;  it  is  reached  by 
a  strenuous  climb  up  a  steep  and  rugged  height,  and 
not  by  an  easy  and  lazy  stroll  along  a  smooth  path 
through  a  flowery  and  fragrant  meadow. 

Our  country  has  had  enough  of  cutaneous  treat- 
ments of  social  eruptions.  It  needs  constitutional 
remedies  applied  at  the  very  center  of  moral  life. 

The  symbol  of  dogma  is  not  the  upas  tree,  casting 
a  blighting  and  blasting  shadow  upon  all  things  be- 
neath its  branches ;  but  the  emblem  of  theology  is  a 
fertilizing  stream,  carrying  fruitfulness  and  beauty 
in  its  course. 

A  religion  without  morality  is  a  defiling  supersti- 
tion, and  an  ethical  system  which  does  not  rest  on 
religious  truth  has  neither  an  enduring  foundation 
nor  any  authoritative  sanctions  for  its  requirements. 

Men  cannot  have  the  moral  fruits  of  Christianity 
after  they  have  destroyed  its  theological  roots. 
Truth  in  the  intellect  and  righteousness  in  the  will 
are  inseparable.  The  creed  of  creedlessness  cannot 
issue  in  correct  conduct. 

What  is  not  worth  preaching  in  time  of  war  is  not 
worth  hearing  in  time  of  peace. 

Men  of  the  world  may  pet  and  praise  a  worldly 
preacher  in  fair  weather ;  but  when  the  storms  arise 


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they  desire  counsel  and  consolation  from  ministers 
of  more  serious  mind  and  solid  faith. 

Life  at  all  times  is  a  very  serious  thing.  It  is  not 
a  mere  pleasure  jaunt;  it  is  a  serious  pilgrimage. 
The  noblest  spirits  feel  that  they  are  sojourners  in 
the  earth,  and  not  mere  pleasure  seekers.  If  the  pul- 
pit is  to  be  of  any  use,  it  must  be  serious  in  its  min- 
istration. The  pulpit  is  no  place  for  a  mere  enter- 
tainment. The  preacher  is  God's  prophet,  or  he  is 
worse  than  nothing.  He  is  to  utter  eternal  truths  to 
immortal  souls,  with  a  view  to  their  salvation,  and 
such  a  work  excludes  all  discourse  designed  simply  to 
tickle  the  fancy  or  please  the  carnal  mind. 

Multitudes  of  preachers,  especially  preachers  in 
urban  communities,  have  been  changed  from  messen- 
gers of  God  into  managers  of  material  enterprises; 
they  are  engineers  rather  than  evangelists,  promoters 
rather  than  prophets. 

Our  people  are  forgetting  God,  and  they  need  to 
be  brought  back  to  him.  They  do  not  recognize  sin 
as  sin,  hence  repentance  is  as  scarce  as  sinfulness  is 
plentiful.  They  regard  their  misconduct  as  misfor- 
tune, and  for  penitence  they  substitute  self-pity. 

If  the  Churches  In  the  country  and  in  the  small 
towns  should  cease  to  give  members  to  the  large  city 
Churches  for  any  considerable  length  of  time,  the 
Christianity  of  the  urban  communities  would  be  most 
disastrously  affected.  Urban  Christianity  produces 
few  preachers  at  best,  and  it  cannot  perpetuate  it- 


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self  unless  it   can  get  constant  spiritual  replenish- 
ment from  the  rural  districts. 

When  innovators  abound  in  the  pulpit,  revolution- 
ary agitators  quickly  rise  up  in  the  political  world. 

Atheism  and  anarchy  unite  to  dishonor  God  and 
destroy  men. 

To  depart  from  fundamentals  is  always  folly  just 
because  they  are  fundamentals.  What  progress 
would  be  possible  in  mathematics  to  a  man  who  began 
his  calculations  by  repudiating  the  multiplication 
table  and  the  axioms  in  geometry?  It  is  quite  time 
for  this  insane  mania  for  principleless  radicalism, 
miscalled  "progress,"  to  be  cured.  The  distemper 
has  lasted  far  too  long.  In  the  cases  of  some  persons 
it  has  become  incurable. 

The  welfare  of  the  world  is  involved  in  the  type 
of  religion  Avhich  prevails  in  the  United  States.  It 
is  the  greatest  of  the  missionary  nations  and  the 
greatest  of  modern  republics.  If  we  renounce  the 
fundamental  principles  of  constitutional  government 
and  evangelical  Christianity,  we  will  do  much  to  de- 
stroy the  confidence  of  all  nations  in  free  institutions 
and  impair  the  faith  of  mankind  in  all  religion. 

Why  should  any  sensible  man  be  prayerless  ?  Why 
should  any  true  man  hesitate  to  lead  his  associates 
in  prayer  on  any  proper  occasion?  Piety  is  not  an 
unmanly  thing.  The  lack  of  it,  rather  than  its  prac- 
tice, bespeaks  the  want  of  manhood. 
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The  best  work  preachers  can  do  for  the  settlement 
of  social  and  economic  questions  is  to  proclaim  the 
gospel  of  Christ,  whereby  spiritual  life  is  begotten 
and  conscience  is  quickened.  The  solution  of  all 
such  questions  waits  not  so  much  on  showing  men 
the  methods  by  which  these  issues  are  to  be  solved 
as  on  inducing  men  to  do  what  they  know  to  be  right. 

A  preacher  gets  a  congregation  "under  false  pre- 
tenses" when  he  invites  people  to  attend  religious 
services,  and  then  harangues  them  on  strikes,  lock- 
outs, and  the  like.  In  the  house  of  God  the  rich  and 
the  poor  should  meet  together  to  hear  "the  common 
salvation"  expounded  and  enforced. 

The  Church  of  God,  no  more  than  her  divine  Lord, 
can  afford  to  be  used  as  a  judge  or  divider  in  the 
distribution  of  earthly  goods  among  rival  claimants 
and  contending  classes.  It  is  her  office  to  offer  salva- 
tion to  all  classes  and  to  proclaim  Christian  princi- 
ples of  life  to  all  classes,  rather  than  to  work  out 
details  of  procedure  and  insist  upon  rigid  methods 
and  Procrustean  programs  for  the  settlement  of  all 
social  issues. 

The  criticism  which  denies  inspiration  to  the  writ- 
ers of  the  Holy  Scriptures  will  not  stick  at  repudiat- 
ing the  call  to  the  ministry.  A  man  who  doubts  the 
inspiration  of  Isaiah  can  hardly  believe  in  the  deal- 
ings of  the  Holy  Spirit  with  his  own  soul. 

We  must  have  done  with  rationalism,  if  we  are  to 
have  any   Churches   or  any  preachers   for  long  in 


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America.  Rationalism  in  religion  is  a  sterile  thing 
without  the  ability  to  propagate  its  own  kind,  much 
less  to  produce  anything  better. 

Spiritual  forces  only  can  effect  spiritual  results. 

A  preacher  who  has  an  impoverished  spiritual  life, 
and  who  is  incapable  of  winning  souls  to  Christ,  mag- 
nifies all  the  schemes  of  earthly  amelioration  which 
come  in  sight.  He  seeks  to  conceal  the  barrenness  of 
his  life  as  a  preacher  of  the  gospel  by  magnifying 
his  social  activities.  Of  course  he  finds  no  precedents 
for  such  an  earth-bound,  worldly  ministry  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  apostles  or  in  the  biographies  of  any  of 
the  great  preachers  of  former  generations.  Hence 
he  begins  to  boast  of  his  progressive  ideas  and  meth- 
ods and  to  berate  all  the  great  spiritual  leaders  of 
the  past.  Thus  he  cries  down  those  heavenly  forces 
whereby  Christianity  has  always  advanced  among 
men,  and  whereby  it  must  always  fulfill  its  heavenly 
mission,  in  order  that  he  may  cry  up  his  novelties  and 
notions.    He  mistakes  backsliding  for  progress. 

An  age  of  luxury,  in  which  men  acquire  an  exces- 
sive love  of  ease,  is  always  addicted  to  indifference 
to  truth.  It  requires  energy  and  effort  to  ascertain 
truth  and  defend  it  against  error. 

In  season  and  out  of  season  they  have  preached 
that  "any  creed  may  be  true  and  good  for  those  who 
sincerely  believe  it,"  which  is  tantamount  to  saying 
that  "all  creeds  may  be  false  to  those  who  sincerely 
doubt  them." 


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It  is  time  to  return  to  fundamental  truths,  and 
stand  for  them.  An  age  of  intolerance,  with  martyrs 
burned  at  the  stake,  is  far  better  than  an  age  of  indo- 
lent indifferentism  prostrated  by  a  lazy  agnosticism. 
Our  poor  paralytic  faith  has  not  power  enough  to 
preach;  and  in  its  weakness  it  parades  and  praises 
its  powerlessness  to  persecute.  It  contends  for  noth- 
ing, because  it  believes  nothing  is  worth  contending 
for.  It  makes  a  religious  wilderness,  destitute  of 
both  definite  creeds  and  decent  conduct,  and  calls  the 
arid  waste  a  paradise  of  peace.  It  is,  indeed,  a  place 
of  peace.  So  is  a  graveyard.  So  is  a  whited  sepul- 
cher  full  of  dead  men's  bones. 

When  men  are  caused  to  depreciate  the  Bible,  they 
will  also  hold  Church  services  and  the  preaching  of 
the  gospel  in  low  esteem.  The  fact  is,  the  pulpit 
pretenders,  who  degrade  the  Scriptures  by  such  talk, 
engage  in  the  unprofitable  labor  of  sawing  the  limb 
off  between  themselves  and  the  tree;  when  they  have 
turned  multitudes  from  the  Scriptures,  they  will  find 
that  they  have  also  sent  them  away  from  the  Church. 

The  people  who  are  neglecting  the  Bible  will  re- 
turn to  it  when  men  who  profess  to  be  called  to 
preach  assert  again  with  authority  the  inspired  char- 
acter of  the  book.  When  it  is  given  its  true  place, 
men  cannot  turn  away  from  it.  There  is  about  it  a 
quality  peculiar  to  itself,  and  which  is  not  found  in 
any  other  writing  known  to  men. 

In  selfish  zeal  or  ambitious  partisanism  men  may 
forget  to  be  good  while  absorbed  in  a  vain  concern 


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for  doing  good.  But  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven  what 
a  man  is  outranks  what  he  does;  the  hfe  is  more  than 
the  labor  of  a  truly  Christly  man,  even  as  Jesus  was 
greater  and  better  than  anything  which  he  did. 

There  are  many  men  and  some  Churches  in  our 
day  who  have  too  much  moral  movement  for  their 
religious  magnitude.  The  violence  of  their  activity 
exceeds  the  volume  of  their  virtue. 

There  can  be  no  worse  form  of  infidelity  than  to 
believe  that  evil-doing  can  ever  promote  any  good 
thing.  The  good  is  not  so  weak  nor  God  so  indiffer- 
ent to  its  successful  issue,  that  wrong  should  be  done 
to  save  it. 

The  worship  of  God's  house  is  often  defeated  by 
operatic  performances  in  the  choir  loft,  which  draw 
crowds  of  a  certain  sort  and  yet  intercept  any  real 
religious  impressions  that  public  worship  is  designed 
to  make.  Amateur  opera  singing  in  a  church  is  not 
to  be  approved  from  the  standpoint  of  good  music 
or  good  morals.  It  is  a  vocal  exhibition  of  second- 
class  quality,  aimed  at  showing  off  the  singer  without 
regard  to  the  worship  of  Almighty  God.  A  silly 
singer,  addicted  to  such  folly,  has  been  known  to 
sing  a  "Hail  Mary"  in  a  Protestant  church.  Know- 
ing neither  the  significance  of  music  nor  the  meaning 
of  words,  they  make  themselves  simply  ridiculous. 
They  who  engage  them  are  like  unto  them  and  so  are 
the  ignorant  souls  who  rave  over  them. 

The  desire  to  win  an  apparent  success  before  the 


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eyes  of  the  community  is  in  most  cases  doubtless  the 
motive  which  leads  pastors  to  engage  sensationalists. 
But  the  ministers  of  God  ought  to  be  the  last  men 
in  the  world  to  join  in  the  blind  worship  of  mere  suc- 
cess. It  is  intolerable  in  men  who  profess  to  repre- 
sent the  Christ,  who  cared  so  little  for  what  the 
world  calls  "success"  that  he  died  on  a  cross. 

In  what  has  been  said  there  is  no  intention  to 
decry  emotion  in  religion.  A  religion  which  does 
not  take  hold  of  the  whole  man — the  intellect,  the 
sensibilities,  and  the  will — is  not  the  religion  of 
Christ,  whatever  else  it  may  be.  A  frigid  intellec- 
tualism,  or  a  self-sufficient  moralism,  or  a  punctilious 
ritualism,  we  justly  associate  with  the  religion  of 
the  Sadducees  and  Pharisees  rather  than  with  the 
piety  which  Jesus  sought  to  promote  among  men. 
Emotion  is  an  essential  part  of  a  genuine  Christian- 
ity in  the  heart. 

A  lucrative  evangelism  is  a  very  modern  thing  irx 
the  history  of  Christianity.  It  is  a  tiling  of  the  last 
twenty-five  years,  and  it  has  hindered  true  religion 
as  much  as  heretics  and  rationalists. 

Sensationalism  is  not  the  power  of  God  unto  sal- 
vation. The  gospel,  and  the  gospel  only,  can  be  re- 
lied upon  to  save  the  people  of  our  day  or  the  people 
of  any  day.  It  is  a  real  spiritual  power,  and  it  Is 
a  sufficient  spiritual  power.  Preaching  in  sincerity 
and  under  the  unction  of  the  Holy  One  cannot  fail 
of  renewing  men  in  righteousness  and  true  holiness. 
It  will  stir  the  sensibilities  as  no  unwholesome  sensa- 


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tionalism  can ;  and  following  its  glowing  influence  on 
the  soul  will  spring  up  fruits  of  righteousness  and 
peace. 

Not  a  few  wish  that  God's  laws  even  should  be  of 
a  merely  advisory  character ;  and  from  wishing  that 
such  were  the  case,  they  come  at  last  to  affirming 
that  such  is  the  case,  and  to  denying  that  penal 
functions  have  any  place  in  the  divine  government. 
They  would  rather  have  a  hell  of  anarchy  on  earth 
than  to  entertain  the  thought  of  future  punishment. 

This  widespread  decay  of  respect  for  authority  is 
called  "progress."  It  is  progress,  indeed — progress 
toward  the  Dark  Ages,  progress  toward  eternal 
night  and  unending  despair.  Our  civilization  has 
progressed  already  too  far  in  that  direction  for 
safety. 

A  minimum  of  creed  cannot  produce  the  maximum 
of  character. 

Character  can  never  be  loftier  than  the  motives 
from  which  it  springs. 

Jesus  and  the  Apostles  always  appealed  to  the 
highest  motives.  The  Christianity  which  they  taught 
meets  men  in  the  altitudes  of  their  natures  because 
it  alms  to  bring  men  up  to  the  most  elevated  state 
of  existence.  It  cares  nothing  for  the  impulses  which 
arise  from  worldly  wisdom,  earthly  expediency,  and 
human  policy.  All  these  are  of  the  earth,  earthy, 
and  it  proposes  to  call  men  to  heavenly  and  divine 


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things.  Hence  its  appeal  is  to  the  atoning  love  re- 
vealed by  the  cross  of  Christ,  the  holiness  of  God 
which  we  are  invited  to  share  by  becoming  partakers 
of  the  divine  nature,  the  future  life  with  its  eternal 
rewards  and  everlasting  penalties,  and  all  the  powers 
of  the  world  to  come  in  which  we  find  the  spiritual 
forces  by  which  the  heart  is  regenerated. 

Appeals  to  shallow  motives  have  never  wrought 
any  great  and  permanent  good  among  men.  Herein 
is  found  the  explanation  of  the  inefficiency  of  a  good 
deal  of  what  men  call  preaching  in  this  generation. 
We  have  much  worldly  preaching — i.  e.,  preaching 
which  appeals  to  motives  bounded  by  time  and  sense. 
We  base  our  demands  for  what  we  call  "civic  right- 
eousness" on  economic  and  governmental  considera- 
tions, which  concern  the  present  world  only,  and  we 
get  a  righteousness  of  mere  expediency,  bereft  of  all 
the  solemn  sanctions  of  eternal  right  and  God's  im- 
mutable law.  Hence  we  lack  authority  in  preaching, 
and  get  up  a  debate  when  we  ought  to  bring  men  to 
decision  for  Christ. 

The  great  religious  motives,  when  they  possess  a 
human  soul,  lift  it  to  the  heights  of  heroic  unselfish- 
ness and  fervent  devotion  to  God.  Heroism  of  the 
highest  sort  is  of  heavenly  origin. 

All  the  talk  of  "Let  us  do  right  for  right's  sake 
only,"  meaning  by  the  words  that  we  are  to  take  no 
account  of  God  in  our  behavior  and  have  no  regard 
for  Christ's  sake,  is  very  shallow  talk.  It  is  an  athe- 
istic immorality;  for  at  bottom  it  i^  immoral,  and 


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soon  shows  its  true  nature  by  its  downright  and  out- 
right selfishness  and  meanness.  Mankind  will  never 
do  right  for  the  sake  of  mere  abstract  right.  The 
Sermon  on  the  Mount  is  an  impossible  standard  to 
all  them  who  do  not  know  and  love  the  Preacher  on 
the  Mount. 

We  cannot  have  a  virile  religion  from  puerile 
motives. 

For  some  time  there  has  been  a  fashion  among 
some  of  arraying  their  piety  in  a  garb  of  scanty 
belief.  That  may  do  for  pygmies  in  religion,  but  not 
for  giants.  The  plan  of  trying  to  live  upon  a  mini- 
mum of  faith  can  never  result  in  a  maximum  of  moral 
strength.  A  gruel  of  doctrine,  thinned  down  to  a 
few  flavorless  ingredients,  will  not  support  robust 
character.  Great  conduct  grows  out  of  great  creeds, 
and  men  who  wish  to  get  away  from  the  great  creeds 
generally  end  by  getting  away  from  the  command- 
mentF. 

The  demagogue  is  like  the  poor  in  one  respect:  he 
is  always  with  us. 

"I  do  not  believe  in  man-made  creeds."  But  can 
there  be  any  creed  at  all  which  is  not  a  man-made 
creed?  A  creed  is  nothing  more  nor  less  than  what 
a  man  believes ;  and  if  he  is  a  man,  and  has  reached 
his  own  conclusion,  his  creed  is  man-made.  If  he  is 
less  than  a  man,  it  might  be  a  fool-made  creed;  but 
it  would  still  be  a  creed. 


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What  is  really  meant  by  the  denunciation  of  man- 
made  creeds,  is  that  the  great  body  of  orthodox  be- 
lievers, who  agree  upon  the  essentials  of  theology, 
shall  be  discredited  for  what  they  believe,  and  they 
only,  who  hold  erratic  and  strange  notions,  with 
which  very  few  can  agree,  shall  be  honored  as  sincere 
and  independent  men.  Is  not  this  the  narrowest 
sort  of  egotism  and  the  vainest  sort  of  conceit? 
Shall  a  man  assume  that  all  the  good  and  great  men 
who  have  studied  the  Holy  Scriptures  in  the  past, 
and  lived  godly  and  lofty  lives  on  the  creeds  which 
they  have  believed,  were  fools  or  knaves,  wanting  in 
either  sense  or  sincerity,  while  he  claims  for  himself 
alone  the  possession  of  the  truth?  Is  that  very 
modest?  Is  such  a  position  justified  by  either  rea- 
son or  revelation?  Is  that  the  proper  spirit  in  which 
to  approach  any  serious  subject?  Is  that  the  meth- 
od which  sensible  men  follow  in  pursuit  of  truth  in 
any  other  branch  of  knowledge? 

The  sum  of  human  peace  has  been  promoted  by 
the  habit  of  mankind  to  separate  into  families. 

It  is  very  easy  to  say,  "Let  us  respect  the  Chris- 
tians of  other  Churches  than  our  own,"  but  it  is  not 
always  so  easy  to  say,  "Let  us  respect  the  Churches 
of  other  Christians  than  ourselves."  But  the  latter 
is  a  far  loftier  manifestation  of  the  spirit  of  catho- 
licity. 

Let  no  man  consider  all  creeds  but  his  own  "man- 
made  creeds";  that  is  in  effect  to  claim  inspiration 
for  his   own  beliefs  and   charge  infidelity   to   God's 


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word  upon  all  who  do  not  agree  with  hnn.    And  that 
is  neither  reasonable  nor  religious. 

It  is  difficult  for  a  good  man  to  frame  a  form  of 
speech  strong  enough  to  condemn  justly  a  fratricidal 
purpose  which  conceals  itself  under  fraternal  pro- 
fessions while  moving  to  its  deadly  end. 

The  creed  of  the  early  Church  was  a  creed  of 
facts,  just  as  still  appears  in  that  ancient  symbol  of 
doctrine  commonly  called  "the  Apostles'  Creed,"  in 
which  all  the  great  Churches  of  Christendom  are 
agreed. 

We  know  Christian  truth  by  revelation  and  not  by 
philosopliical  ratiocination. 

Christianity  is,  in  Paul's  view,  neither  a  science 
nor  a  philosophy;  but  a  revelation  from  heaven  at- 
tested to  the  human  heart  by  the  Divine  Spirit. 

Faithful  pastors,  who  are  leading  souls  to  the 
Saviour,  are  making  the  most  unanswerable  argu- 
ments for  Christianity.  A  new  convert  counts  for 
more  than  a  new  theory. 

Souls  take  their  departure  from  God  not  by  sud- 
den and  violent  acts  of  rebellion,  but  by  insensible 
concessions  to  evil  which  scarcely  make  a  distinct 
impression  on  the  consciousness. 

Preachers  who  "teach  their  congregations  to 
doubt  everything  but  doubt"  are  they  who  play  to 


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the  galleries  and  love  to  make  a  great  show  of  "inde- 
pendence" and  "freedom  of  thought."  They  utter 
great  swelling  words  about  liberty  when  in  truth 
they  are  the  bond-slaves  of  vanity,  concerned  for 
neither  freedom  nor  faith,  if  by  any  means  they  may 
be  applauded  by  men  of  the  world. 

The  conception  of  the  early  Church  of  its  func- 
tion with  reference  to  religious  truth  was,  not  that 
of  one  who  is  to  discover  truth,  but  that  of  one  who 
is  the  depository  and  defender  of  the  truth  which 
has  been  revealed  from  heaven  and  committed  to  his 
keeping. 

Men  cannot  live  on  doubts.  The  soul  of  man  lives 
by  what  it  believes,  and  not  by  what  it  doubts. 

Congregations  are  not  going  to  stay  long  under 
the  ministrations  of  a  man  who  boasts  that  he  is  a 
"truth-seeker,"  and  who  abdicates  the  functions  of 
one  who  is  set  to  proclaim  the  settled  truth  upon 
which  men  live.  Pseudo-truth-seekers  should  seek 
some  other  place  than  the  pulpit  in  which  to  parade. 

Men  for  armies  cannot  be  brought  to  strong  man- 
hood in  the  absence  of  capable  physicians  through- 
out the  country,  and  armies  once  formed  will  speedily 
perish  away  except  they  be  served  by  competent 
surgeons. 

A  physician  while  visiting  the  sick  may  often  ren- 
der services  as  holy  and  edifying  as  the  ministrations 


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of  a  pastor,  and  many  consecrated  physicians  have 
been  pastors  to  the  poor  as  well  as  healers  to  them. 

An  ignorant  and  incompetent  doctor  is  worse  than 
no  doctor ;  for  such  a  physician  is  an  ally  of  disease 
and  a  promoter  of  undertaking  establishments. 

Pulpit  pettifoggers  have  been  criticizing  the  Holy 
Scriptures,  minimizing  sin,  deriding  salvation 
through  an  atoning  Saviour,  and  offering  as  a  sub- 
stitute for  religion  programs  of  -what  they  have 
called  by  various  cant  phrases,  "Civic  righteous- 
ness," "Social  service,"  etc.  German  rationalism  has 
been  poured  out  upon  the  people  by  clerical  scribes 
and  preaching  Sadducees,  who  have  honored  and 
promoted  skepticism  by  their  sermons  far  more  than 
they  have  strengthened  faith  and  advanced  the  knowl- 
edge of  God  among  their  hearers. 

While  men  will  talk  lightly  about  God  and  prayer, 
as  if  God  were  nonexistent  and  prayer  a  supersti- 
tious performance,  few  of  them  will  dare  live  in  a 
godless  world  or  a  prayerless  world.  Those  who 
have  not  prayed  for  years  on  years  would  reject  with 
the  utmost  energy  a  proposal  that  they  pledge  them- 
selves never  to  pray  again.  Who  among  the  children 
of  men  would  sell  for  any  consideration  his  privilege 
of  prayer,  even  though  he  has  not  exercised  it  since 
he  left  his  mother's  knee.^* 

Napoleon's  atheistic  maxim  that  "God  is  on  the 
side  of  the  heaviest  artillery"  is  a  false  maxim  which 
history  abundantly  refutes.     Who  had  the  heaviest 


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artillery    when    Najjoleon    invaded    Russia?      God 
snowed  on  the  Corsican  and  defeated  him. 

Mere  sentiment,  apart  from  definite  and  settled 
beliefs,  soon  vanishes  as  the  mists  of  the  morning 
vanish  before  the  rising  sun.  "The  religion  of  the 
inarticulate,"  if  it  may  be  called  a  religion  at  all,  is 
too  invertebrate  to  carry  the  burdens  of  life  or  even 
to  stand  alone  long. 

The  Christianity  of  Christ  and  his  Church  has 
come  to  stay.  It  also  will  believe,  and  therefore 
speak  its  faith,  as  did  David  and  Paul. 

Difficulties  tend  to  beget  patience,  and  patience 
promotes  perseverance,  and  perseverance  brings 
power. 

The  greatest  faith  is  found  amid  the  greatest 
difficulties. 

Easy  conditions  frequently  put  the  soul  to  sleep, 
while  hard  conditions  stir  the  soul  to  strive  for  the 
highest  things  which  otherwise  might  be  neglected. 

Let  no  man  be  discouraged  by  hard  conditions, 
nor  despair  of  the  highest  good  because  beset  by  ad- 
verse circumstances.  Let  him  purpose  in  his  heart 
to  be  what  he  ought  to  be,  and  the  most  hostile 
things  will  become  the  potential  allies  of  his  soul. 

Democracy  cannot  be  safe  for  the  world  unless  it 
be  inspired  and  controlled  by  the  highest  morality 
and  the  deepest  spirituality. 


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Secularism  in  education  is  a  fearful  explosive. 

[The  right  is  always  feasible  to  them  who  wish  to 
do  right. 

Someone  will  say,  "Let  us  be  practical;  the  world 
cannot  get  along  without  these  wrong  things."  Is 
God  then  an  impractical  being?  Certainly  he  is,  if 
the  moral  law  which  he  has  proclaimed  is  impractica- 
ble. The  All-wise  God  is  utterly  visionary,  if  the 
Ten  Commandments  are  "an  iridescent  dream." 

What  is  right  is  always  and  everywhere  expedient. 

If  it  is  not  safe  for  the  nation  to  have  drunkenness 
and  licentiousness  among  its  soldiers  and  sailors, 
it  is  not  safe  for  these  immoralities  to  prevail  among 
the  citizens  of  the  nation.  What  is  dangerous  in 
war  must  be  hurtful  in  peace.  Are  not  the  duties  of 
peace  as  sacred  and  important  as  the  obligations  of 
war?  Does  not  the  home  need  as  much  protection 
from  immorality  as  the  cantonment?  Is  the  camp 
in  the  suburbs  of  a  city  of  more  importance  than  the 
city  itself?  To  ask  these  questions  is  to  answer 
them,  and  the  unavoidable  answer  contradicts  all  the 
pretentious  theories  of  the  apologists  for  immorality. 

Wrong  is  as  inexpedient  as  it  is  iniquitous. 

[The  idea  that  it  is  easy  to  be  saved  and  hard,  if 
not  impossible,  to  be  lost  is  as  repugnant  to  sound 
reason  as  it  is  contradictory  to  the  Scriptures. 
Nothing  that  is  worth  while  is  easy.     Ignorance  ig 


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easy,  but  learning  is  difficult ;  idleness  is  easy,  but 
industry  is  hard.  In  like  manner  sin  and  death  are 
easy  of  attainment,  but  salvation  and  life  require  the 
most  strenuous  efforts,  and  without  the  saving  grace 
of  the  atoning  Saviour  they  are  quite  out  of  the 
reach  of  every  man. 

The  blood  of  Christ  alone  suffices  to  save,  and  no 
man  can  shed  blood  enough  of  his  own  to  make 
atonement  for  his  sin. 

If  dying  in  battle  suffices  to  save  the  soul,  why 
should  Christ  have  died  to  redeem  man?  If  dying  in 
battle  can  save  the  soldier  who  lays  down  his  life, 
then  it  must  follow  that  peace  is  perilous  and  that 
where  war  abounds  salvation  doth  much  more  abound. 
If  this  be  true,  then  what  an  immigrant  agent  for 
heaven  was  Napoleon! 

Christ  is  the  hope  of  the  world  or  there  is  no  hope 
at  all.  Men  must  go  after  him  or  go  down  in  de- 
spair. 

The  touch  of  the  cross,  like  the  touch  of  the  rod 
of  Moses  on  the  rocks  of  Horeb,  making  water  to 
flow  from  flinty  surfaces,  makes  floods  of  benevolence 
to  flow  from  millions  of  stony  hearts. 

He  is  the  foe  of  the  race  of  man  who  fights  the 
Son  of  Man. 

The  present  influence  of  Jesus  among  men  is  the 
greatest  of  all  miracles ;  it  outranks  in  wonder  even 


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the  resurrection  itself.  Christian  history  is  the  ever- 
enlarging  record  of  an  unceasing  miracle.  The  world 
is  not  moving  on  naturalistic  lines ;  every  inch  of  its 
progress  bears  upon  its  face  the  imprint  of  the  su- 
pernatural. And  unchristian  forces  are  not  giving 
direction  to  the  advancement  of  mankind;  unques- 
tionably the  human  race  is  going  forward,  under  the 
leadership  of  Jesus.  It  must  follow  him  or  not  ad- 
vance at  all.  If  it  refuse  to  go  after  him,  it  must 
consent  to  go  backward. 

A  so-called  preacher  in  Baltimore  went  through 
the  profane  performance  of  dismissing  his  congrega- 
tion that  they  might  work  their  gardens  on  the 
Sabbath.  Such  cheap  clerical  demagogy  "wearies 
indignation  and  fatigues  disgust."  The  American 
people  are  not  so  short  of  potatoes  and  so  long  on 
piety  that  gardening  may  for  a  time  supersede  god- 
liness. They  may  need  corn,  but  they  need  far  more 
sorely  consecration.  They  need  rutabagas  far  less 
than  they  need  religion. 

Christ's  conquest  of  the  world  is  by  means  of  con- 
version. 

These  schemes  for  salvation  by  syndicate  partake 
of  the  spirit  and  methods  of  "big  business"  in  the 
commercial  world,  and  thus  they  "savor  of  the  things 
which  be  of  men,  and  not  of  the  things  which  be  of 
God."  They  spring  from  a  mundane  megalomania, 
bawling  for  bigness  in  order  to  overpower  the  heathen 
world  by  bulkiness  of  organization,  rather  than  con- 
vert the  heathen  world  to  Christ  by  the  saving 
processes  of  the  gospel. 
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Christ  has  not  called  his  Church  to  conquering 
campaigns,  but  to  converting  ministrations. 

The  mania  for  publicity,  which  has  been  called 
publicomania,  is  one  of  the  prevalent  and  pernicious 
vices  of  our  time. 

One  brought  up  under  the  holy  influence  of  daily 
worship  knows  how  comforting  and  strengthening  is 
even  the  memory  of  such  a  sacred  thing.  Those 
early  impressions  remain  as  a  restraint  from  sin,  an 
inspiration  to  duty,  and  a  support  in  trial. 

"If  Christ  be  not  risen,  then  is  our  preaching 
vain,  and  your  faith  is  also  vain."  The  converse  of 
St.  Paul's  proposition  is  that  if  neither  the  preach- 
ing nor  the  faith  has  been  vain,  Christ  surely  rose. 

We  have  books  on  the  philosophy  of  the  Christian 
religion,  and — save  the  mark ! — books  on  what  some 
of  the  conventional  academics  call  the  psychology  of 
Christian  experience !  All  of  which  is  pretentious 
nonsense.  Christianity  is  not  a  philosophy ;  it  is  a 
revelation.  It  was  not  discovered  by  the  saints,  but 
delivered  to  them.  It  is  a  deposit  which  they  are  to 
defend  and  not  a  discovery  which  they  are  to  parade. 
Neither  the  human  senses,  nor  the  faculties  of  the 
human  mind,  are  equal  to  the  task  of  discovering  the 
things  of  Christian  life  and  truth.  (1  Cor.  ii.  9.) 
Christianity  being  a  revelation,  and  not  a  philosophy, 
can  be  apprehended  by  the  common  man  and  at  the 
same  time  command  the  mind  of  the  most  learned 
man. 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler     83 

A  modish  mind  can  neither  conceive  nor  proclaim 
with  fidelity  eternal  truth.     (Gal.  i.  10.) 

There  was  a  progressive  revelation  before  Christ 
and  leading  up  to  Christ ;  but  when  he  appeared  in 
the  flesh  among  men,  in  the  fullness  of  time,  he  re- 
vealed the  fullness  of  truth.  The  revelation  of  God 
through  his  Son  leaves  nothing  pertaining  to  salva- 
tion undisclosed. 

Christianity  is  full,  fixed,  and  final  truth.  An 
archangel  could  not  amend  it,  and  Gabriel  would  not 
presume  to  try  to  improve  it. 

It  is  time  now  to  proclaim  afresh  "the  common 
salvation."  We  have  had  enough  of  uncommon  non- 
sense. Let  us  return  to  what  all  souls  live  upon,  if 
they  live  at  all. 

The  Church  of  God  is  not  in  the  world  to  seek 
the  patronage  of  men,  but  to  rebuke  their  sins,  de- 
mand their  submission  to  the  authority  of  God,  and 
to  offer  to  penitent  souls  salvation  in  the  name  of 
Jesus. 

The  bigotry  of  some  liberals  to-day  is  the  bigotry 
of  those  whose  narrow  creed  is  the  creed  of  creed- 

lessness. 

The  soul  of  man  controls  circumstances  far  more 
than  circumstances  control  the  soul  of  man. 

Christian   unity   is   never  more  dishonored  than 


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where  the  profession  of  a  desire  for  it  is  used  to  dis- 
guise efforts  for  ecclesiastical  self-aggrandizement. 
This  is  like  firing  while  bearing  a  flag  of  truce. 

The  essence  of  religion  is  a  return  of  the  soul  to 
God. 

Renovating  human  relations  cannot  bring  a  soul 
back  to  God,  but  restoring  the  soul  to  God  makes  all 
else  right. 

Nations  are  turned  into  hell  because  they  "forget 
God,"    Losing  God,  we  lose  ourselves. 

In  the  end  churchless  people  become  godless  peo- 
ple. 

A  Sabbathless  nation  will  be  a  godless  nation; 
and  all  history  tells  us  what  godless  nations  come  to. 
The  records  of  mankind  unite  with  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures in  declaring  that  nations  "which  forget  God 
are  turned  into  hell,"  and  it  is  equally  true  that  such 
nations  always  turn  hell  into  themselves. 

Men  are  not  saved  by  denials  and  doubts,  but  by 
positive  beliefs  and  affirmative  faith. 

To  make  sermons  which  blight  souls  is  a  horrible 
profanation  of  the  pulpit  and  a  dreadful  desecration 
of  the  Sabbath.  If  a  parish  ask  bread,  will  the  pas- 
tor give  his  people  a  stone?  Alas,  some  have!  And 
some  for  a  nutritious  egg  of  truth  have  given  a  ser- 
pent of  doubt. 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler      85 

Mr.  Beecher  tried  sensationalism  for  years ;  Philip 
Brooks  took  the  opposite  course.  Distance  will  make 
Brooks  look  larger,  but  Beecher  will  fade  away  into 
a  dim  reminiscence,  although  in  point  of  mental  vol- 
ume Beecher  was  perhaps  the  stronger  man. 

Yellow  journalism  and  yellow  pulpitism  have  both 
seen  their  greatest  popularity.  They  must  pass 
away.  Decency  dooms  them.  It  is  time  for  Christly 
men  to  rise  up  and  scourge  these  evils  and  drive  them 
out  of  the  temples  which  were  designed  to  be  houses 
of  prayer  and  not  places  of  cheap  entertainmeat. 

Subjection  to  German  rationalism  has  been  a  fash- 
ion among  certain  classes ;  not  because  rationalism  Is 
so  reasonable,  but  because  it  has  been  for  a.  time  the- 
ologically modish.  Men  of  this  type  have  slashed 
their  creeds  just  as  fashionable  women  have  slit  their 
skirts ;  it  was  "the  thing  to  do"  in  order  to  "keep 
abreast  of  the  times." 

The  man  of  God  who  proclaims,  with  the  power  of 
the  Holy  Ghost  sent  down  from  heaven,  the  faith 
once  for  all  delivered  to  the  saints,  is  always  sure  of 
a  hearing  because  such  ministrations  satisfy  the  deep- 
est yearnings  of  the  human  heart. 

Men  will  not  regard  their  fellow  men  aright  when 
they  cease  to  care  for  how  God  regards  themselves. 

Men  run  to  their  own  ruin  when  they  refuse  to 
respect  the  divine  rule. 

"Knowledge  made  easy"  to  take,  by  being  floated 


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in  fun,  suggests  most  subtly  that  education  is  not 
worth  acquiring  unless  it  can  be  acquired  without 
interrupting  one's  amusement.  Such  a  process  ex- 
alts diversion  to  the  supreme  place,  and  correspond- 
ingly degrades  both  the  acquisition  of  learning  and 
the  development  of  intellect. 

Men  cannot  be  lured  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
through  side  shows  and  vaudeville  performances. 
Men  and  women  cannot  be  converted  and  made  good 
by  grinning  at  God. 

We  have  multitudes  of  reformers,  of  the  light- 
weight variety,  publishing  daily  planetesimal  pro- 
grams. It  is  time  to  tell  these  hysterical  reconstruc- 
tionists  to  go  home,  and  get  quiet  for  a  season  at 
least.  These  frenzied  souls  have  undertaken  too 
much.  Reconstructing  the  whole  planet  is  a  very 
large  contract.  It  is  time  for  the  "world-reconstruc- 
tionists"  to  go  home  and  go  to  work. 

Jesus  Christ  commanded  his  disciples  to  go  into 
all  the  world,  but  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  he 
directed  them  "to  preach  the  gospel  to  every  crea- 
ture," thus  clearly  indicating  that  the  salvation  of 
the  individual  was  the  process  by  which  all  mankind 
was  to  be  saved.  The  Master  seems  never  to  have 
considered  "Christianizing  the  social  system,"  what- 
ever that  means,  if  it  really  means  anything.  Souls, 
not  systems,  are  the  subjects  of  conversion,  accord- 
ing to  the  teaching  of  Jesus. 

The  conversion  of  individual  souls  will  renew  all 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler     87 

systems ;  for  the  systems  of  men  are  the  exponents  of 
the  souls  of  men. 

The  program-makers  and  campaign-drivers  of  our 
day,  like  the  mythical  Atlas,  are  not  content  to  carry 
anything  less  than  the  whole  world  on  their  backs. 

Let  every  man  do  his  duty  each  day,  however  hum- 
ble his  task  may  seem,  and  follow  Christ.  Thereby 
he  will  most  certainly  do  his  part  in  "reconstructing 
the  world,"  and  by  no  other  process  can  he  do  it. 

The  public  is  growing  weary  of  "world  move- 
ments" and  world  movers  who  move  nothing  but 
themselves  from  place  to  place  and  from  platform  to 
platform,  and  at  somebody  else's  expense. 

Only  good  results  can  flow  from  fidelity  in  the  dis- 
charge of  duty,  and  the  greatest  things  are  never 
reached  by  any  other  way  than  pursuing  faithfully 
the  duties  of  each  day  as  they  come  to  us. 

Between  the  pressure  of  programs  and  publicity 
real  piety  is  having  a  hard  time  of  it.  When  will 
men  and  women  learn  that  daily  duty  is  the  holiest, 
greatest  thing  a  human  being  can  undertake?  From 
acrobatic  agitators  and  housetop  howlers  may  the 
good  Lord  deliver  us — and  deliver  us  speedily. 

Men  who  advocate  ecclesiastical  mergers  are  fond 
of  dwelling  on  what  they  call  the  Saviour's  prayer 
for  Christian  unity.  (John  xvii.  20,  21.)  But  the 
unity  for  which  our  Lord  prayed  was  not  sameness 


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of  organization,  but  unity  of  spiritual  life.  He  was 
not  concerned  that  men  might  be  organized  into  one 
ecclesiastical  body,  but  that  they  might  participate 
in  the  same  life  which  was  in  him  and  in  the  Father. 

"World  Churches"  always  come  to  depend  on 
worldly  forces  and  in  the  end  become  worldly 
Churches. 

Service  is  the  natural  and  irresistible  impulse  of 
all  truly  regenerate  souls.  This  is  just  what  the 
Church  has  taught  in  all  ages.  It  is  most  wholesome 
truth,  but  it  is  not  the  whole  truth,  and  when  it  is 
put  forward  as  the  entire  substance  of  Christian  life 
it  becomes  a  whole  falsehood. 

Jesus  taught  that  a  man's  life  is  more  than  his 
labors,  and  that  one  might  be  very  abundant  in  use- 
ful services  and  yet  be  lost.  (Matt.  vii.  22,  23.) 
He  also  taught  that  a  subtle  vanity  often  actuates 
men  in  doing  service,  saying  of  certain  who  were 
very  active,  "All  their  works  they  do  for  to  be  seen 
of  men." 

Some  of  the  most  disagreeable  and  vain  people  in 
society  to-day  are  certain  men  and  women  who  are 
perpetually  prating  about  "service."  What  sort  of 
service  can  a  godless  soul  render  to  any  other  soul? 
The  first  duty  any  man  owes  to  the  generation  in 
which  he  lives  is  that  of  maintaining  a  high  and  holy 
life  in  himself.  A  Christian  life  is  the  highest  sort 
of  service.  Surely  we  have  had  enough  of  this  cant 
of  worldly  ignorance  and  ignorant  worldliness. 


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The  very  nature  of  the  work  proposed  by  the 
Church  of  God  forbids  that  it  shall  ever  assume  the 
attitude  of  asking  the  world  for  its  patronage.  The 
Church  is  the  bride  of  Christ  and  ministers  are  the 
ambassadors  of  God.  Can  the  bride  of  Christ  beg 
worldly  men  to  smile  upon  her?  May  she  seek  pop- 
ularity in  the  world  by  employing  all  sorts  of  mere- 
tricious charms? 

The  demagogue  in  politics,  attacking  all  settled 
principles  of  government  and  promising  the  people 
every  kind  of  impossible  benefit,  if  they  will  only  give 
him  their  support,  is  bad  enough,  in  all  conscience ; 
but  the  demagogue  in  the  pulpit,  denouncing  all  the 
creeds  and  all  the  Churches  and  all  the  other  preach- 
ers in  the  land,  is  even  more  disgusting. 

A  congregation  is  something  more  than  a  crowd, 
as  a  well-organized  regiment  is  something  more  than 
a  mob.  A  congregation  is  a  collection  of  people  of 
kindred  natures,  pursuing  a  common  aim  and  ani- 
mated by  a  common  spirit. 

As  soon  as  the  Wesleyan  revival  had  done  its 
work.  Christian  fellowship  began  to  reappear  in 
England.  Then  one  might  have  seen  Lady  Hunting- 
ton and  Lord  Dartmouth  uniting  with  coal  miners 
and  peasants  in  the  same  religious  service,  for  they 
believed  alike,  felt  alike,  and  lived  by  the  same  reli- 
gious principles. 

Men  prefer  to  be  engaged  in  a  conspicuous  move- 
ment in  which  they  escape  difficult  and  tedious  details 


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ratKer  than  to  give  themselves  to  do  more  important 
work  of  a  less  conspicuous  character  and  which  calls 
for  painful  persistence. 

Social  institutions  are  no  better  than  the  men  and 
women  who  make  them ;  in  the  nature  of  the  case 
they  can  be  no  better.  Our  customs  express  our 
characters. 

Our  reformers  have  begun  at  the  wrong  end  of 
things.  They  seem  to  proceed  on  the  idea  that  per- 
sonal character  can  only  be  reached  and  raised  by 
efforts  on  the  whole  bulk  of  the  community.  Their 
theory  looks  very  impressive;  it  appeals  to  the  car- 
nal mind  by  its  appearance  of  bigness ;  but  it  is  vis- 
ionary and  impracticable.  At  bottom  it  Is  tainted 
with  not  a  little  of  human  pride,  vanity,  and  self- 
indulgence. 

What  is  wanted  to  "Christianize  society"  Is  not  a 
superficial,  cutaneous  treatment  of  pimples  on  the 
social  system,  but  a  profound,  constitutional  renewal 
of  the  hearts  of  men  and  women. 

I  have  lost  faith  in  reforms  and  reformers.  I  have 
seen  too  many  of  them.  We  must  depend  upon 
Christ  to  "make  all  things  new"  because  he  proposes 
to  make  all  souls  new. 

It  would  be  a  very  cold  day  for  our  sinning  and 
suffering  race  If  the  fires  on  the  altars  of  the 
churches  were  extinguished. 

As  long  as  men  are  free,  some  of  them  will  sin ; 
and  as  long  as  any  of  them  sin,  there  will  be  incurable 


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suffering  in  the  community.  The  way  of  the  trans- 
gressor is  hard,  and  inseparably  joined  by  ties  of 
flesh  and  blood  with  every  transgressor  are  innocent 
persons  who  must  suffer  with  him.  This  upon  the 
whole  is  probably  best  for  humanity  or  God  would 
have  made  the  case  different. 

The  gospel  itself  cannot  be  made  the  power  of  God 
to  salvation  to  any  but  those  who  believe. 

There  is  not  a  moral  evil  in  the  land  which  is  not 
weaker  than  it  would  be  if  the  Church  did  not  exist, 
and  there  is  not  a  good  thing  in  the  country  which 
would  not  suffer  much  if  the  Church  ceased  to  live. 

Error  is  ever  willing  to  compromise,  but  just  be- 
cause the  truth  is  true  it  can  make  no  concessions  to 
that  which  is  false. 

A  religion  that  is  willing  to  divide  the  race  of  man 
with  any  other  religion  cannot  be  the  true  religion 
which  reveals  the  true  God.  Our  Heavenly  Father 
cannot  be  content  with  turning  over  any  of  his  chil- 
dren to  kidnaping  superstitions ;  he  claims  the  whole 
world  for  his  rightful  dominion. 

Christian  churches  are  in  every  land,  and  if  a  torch 
were  placed  at  nightfall  upon  every  Christian  altar 
in  the  earth  our  world  would  be  girdled  with  light 
without  the  aid  of  the  sun. 

The  chivalry  of  the  present  time  is  found  among 
the  foreign  missionaries  of  the  Churches.    They  leave 


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home  and  country  and  kindred  and  go  forth  among 
strange  peoples,  not  to  recover  an  empty  grave  from 
the  hands  of  infidels,  but  to  rescue  unnumbered  hu- 
man souls  from  being  buried  alive  in  suffocating 
superstitions.  Than  such  there  can  be  no  more  noble 
knight-errantry. 

The  bottom  issue  in  the  whole  question  of  foreign 
missions  is  the  naked  issue  of  whether  Christianity  is 
true  or  false.  If  Christianity  is  true,  it  is  the  duty 
of  every  Christian  to  spread  his  supreme  truth  to 
earth's  remotest  bounds.  The  first  and  highest  obli- 
gation of  the  man  who  has  the  truth  is  to  tell  it  to 
those  who  know  it  not  and  need  to  know  it. 

The  whole  history  of  mankind  proclaims  as  loudly 
as  do  the  Scriptures  the  fundamental  truth  that 
"without  the  shedding  of  blood  there  is  no  remis- 
sion." The  altars  and  offerings  of  men  of  all  ages 
disclose  how  the  conscious  need  of  atonement  rests 
universally  upon  the  human  heart.  Man  might  be 
tracked  down  the  ages  by  the  bloodstains  of  his  sac- 
rificial offerings.  It  is  no  accident  that  Jesus  only 
has  been  able  to  sheathe  the  sacrificial  knife.  He  has 
done  it  by  making  an  atonement  upon  which  the 
hearts  of  men  can  rest  in  peace  with  purged  and  po- 
tent conscience  within  the  breast.  They  sacrifice  no 
more  because  his  sacrifice  is  final  and  satisfying.  No 
bleached  and  bloodless  cult  is  ever  going  to  win  a 
race  with  such  a  history  as  has  the  race  of  man. 

The  work  of  evangelizing  the  heathen  has  been 
neglected  too  long;  and  Christendom  is  menaced  to- 


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day  by  a  heathen  world  more  than  it  is  threatened 
by  any  other  peril.  The  time  is  at  hand  when  the 
world  must  be  all  paganized  or  all  Christianized. 
One  type  of  moral  life  must  prevail  around  the  whole 
earth. 

Some  uninformed  people  imagine  the  Chinese  re- 
public is  but  a  transient  thing.  There  never  was  a 
greater  mistake.  The  Chinese  people,  for  centuries, 
have  been  accustomed  to  self-government ;  and  no 
people,  not  Christian,  were  ever  better  prepared  for 
republican  institutions. 

The  function  of  the  Church  is  not  economical, 
sociological,  philosophical,  or  artistic ;  it  is  neither 
a  reformer  nor  an  entertainer.  It  is  supremely  the 
dispenser  of  the  forces  which  issue  in  spiritual  life. 
It  is  the  family  of  God,  the  household  of  faith,  where- 
in souls  are  born  and  nourished. 

God's  house  is  a  house  for  prayer,  and  not  a  cheap 
lunch  counter. 

Some  folks  carry  the  idea  of  foreordination  so  far 
that  they  are  willing  to  leave  the  Christianization  of 
the  heathen  to  the  inscrutable  wisdom  of  God,  with- 
out recognizing  their  own  needed  instrumentality  in 
personal  service,  contributions,  or  otherwise. 

Do  not  be  so  ready  to  presume  that  the  Holy 
Spirit  is  talking  to  someone  else.  He  is  talking  to 
you.  The  plan  is  God's,  it  is  true,  but  he  leaves  his 
children  to  work  it  out. 


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Some  of  the  brethren  are  great  on  going  round 
and  more  or  less  piously  saying  ancient  pieces  which 
they  call  sermons. 

The  commerce  of  Christian  lands  is  more  energetic 
and  expansive  than  their  Christianity.  There  are 
more  drummers  than  missionaries  in  Cuba.  (March, 
1901.) 

Why  are  the  children  of  this  world  wiser  in  their 
generation  than  the  children  of  light?  I  can  frame 
no  other  answer  than  this :  Because  they  do  absolutely 
believe  in  what  they  say  they  believe  in,  and  they  do 
genuinely  love  the  things  they  profess  to  love. 

When  the  Church  loves  God  as  genuinely  and  fer- 
vently as  men  of  the  world  love  gold,  we  shall  see  no 
limping,  halting  Christian  enterprises. 

The  choir  money,  spent  apparently  with  a  view  to 
suppress  congregational  singing  and  impair  worship 
by  a  sort  of  Sunday  substitute  for  the  opera,  would 
equip  this  (Cuban)  work.  Meanwhile  the  pastors 
of  some  of  our  great  Churches  are  wasting  precious 
time  and  opportunity  by  sermons  compressed  to  the 
dimensions  of  jejune  essays  under  the  hydraulic 
pressure  of  musical  floods  in  front  and  rear.  When 
will  we  quit  playing  at  religion .''    O  Lord,  how  long ! 

JVill  they  lynch  the  law  to  please  the  lawless, ? 

If  the  council  may  authorize  a  shopkeeper  to  make 
money  unlawfully,  why  not  license  others  more  needy 
to  take  money  unlawfully? 


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This  matter  (of  Sabbath  observance)  goes  to  the 
core  of  civilization. 

It  is  necessary  for  men,  if  rehgion  is  to  survive  in 
the  earth,  to  come  at  least  once  a  week  in  contact 
with  eternal  things,  and  it  is  the  death  of  good  gov- 
ernment— especially  good  republican  government — 
for  religion  to  perish. 

Our  hope  is  still  in  God,  as  was  the  hope  of  our 
fathers. 

Our  people,  black  and  white,  need  once  a  week  to 
have  the  fever  of  passion  and  covetousness  taken 
out  of  their  blood,  or  at  least  the  heat  somewhat 
reduced.    We  cannot  spare  the  Sabbath. 

There  are  men  who  believe  It  Is  better  to  make 
money  than  to  do  right.  They  are  the  last  class  to 
whom  the  public  should  make  any  concessions.  Con- 
cession to  them  Is  treason  to  God. 


CHAPTER  II. 

Pamphlets  and  Booklets. 

The  Holy  Spirit  is  a  living  person  going  before 
us  in  these  times  as  in  the  days  of  the  apostles. 
Providence  is  not  obsolete. 

Latin  America  has  not  known  the  progress  and 
prosperity  of  North  America.  This  is  not  the  re- 
sult of  the  superiority  of  Anglo-Saxon  blood  to  Latin 
blood.  All  history  contradicts  such  a  notion.  The 
difference  has  been  far  more  a  matter  of  religion  than 
a  matter  of  race.  Give  the  Latin- American  peoples 
the  enlightening  and  quickening  influences  of  evan- 
gelical Christianity,  and  they  will  show  themselves 
strong  and  prosperous. 

Orderly  government  cannot  be  secured  by  force 
of  arms ;  it  must  be  secured  by  the  highest  religious 
motives  filling  the  hearts  and  controlling  the  lives  of 
the  people. 

Romanism  withholds  the  Bible  from  the  people  and 
denies  them  the  right  of  private  judgment  in  its 
interpretation.  Protestantism  is  under  the  highest 
obligation  to  enlighten  the  people.  It  offers  them 
the  open  Bible  and  says :  "Read  it  and  understand  it 
for  yourselves.  It  is  a  Book  safe  in  the  hands  of  all 
the  people."  But  how  shall  they  read  if  they  be  not 
taught?  Accordingly,  all  the  Protestant  Churches, 
from  the  days  of  the  Reformation  until  now,  have 
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engaged  in  the  work  of  education.  The  German  re- 
formers founded  schools.  So  did  Knox  in  Scotland, 
and  so  did  the  English  reformers  in  England.  So 
also  did  John  Wesley  and  the  early  Methodists. 
Kingswood  School  antedates  the  class  meeting. 

On  a  foreign  mission  field  schools  are  indispensa- 
ble. Without  them  a  native  ministry  competent  for 
the  work  is  impossible,  and  without  a  competent  na- 
tive ministry  no  nation  can  be  evangelized  success- 
fully. 

It  is  a  sure  mark  of  a  growing  mission  that  its 
needs  are  many.  A  dead  mission  needs  nothing  but 
decent  burial,  but  a  prosperous  mission  develops  new 
needs  daily. 

We  have  too  many  meetings  anyway,  and  far  too 
much  talking  and  far  too  little  calm,  clear  thinking. 
We  formulate  educational  policies  and  frame  even 
religious  movements  too  frequently  on  impulse  born 
of  a  perfervid  declaration  rather  than  upon  sound 
reason. 

It  is  time  to  reconstruct  the  American  college  with 
a  view  to  making  it  an  educational  institution  rather 
than  a  recreational  enterprise.  The  college  of  for- 
mer days  produced  more  genuine  culture  than  the 
play-struck  and  fad-ridden  institution  of  to-day. 

The  rule  of  the  coach  is  the  ruin  of  the  college. 

We  face  problems  of  reconstruction  such  as  were 
never  seen  before  in  all  the  history  of  mankind,  and 
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98     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

to  meet  the  demands  of  the  new  era  trained  minds, 
educated  in  the  religious  atmosphere  of  Christian  in- 
stitutions of  learning,  will  be  imperatively  needed. 

Peace  has  its  duties  and  sacrifices  no  less  solemn 
and  sacred  than  those  of  war. 

In  war  German  science  combined  with  savage  meth- 
ods has  shown  how  positively  dangerous  is  godless 
education.  Such  education  increases  power  without 
supplying  conscience  enough  to  restrain  from  evil 
ends  the  power  which  it  imparts.  The  world  has  had 
enough  of  it.  If  the  war  has  made  any  one  lesson 
plain  beyond  all  question,  it  is  that  Christian  educa- 
tion alone  makes  for  righteousness  and  peace  among 
men. 

Heroic  doing  of  duty  will  overcome  the  greatest 
difficulties. 

Ignorance  is  costly  and  enlightenment  Is  enriching. 

It  is  useless  to  use  big  words  about  rebuilding  the 
world  unless  we  are  ready  to  do  big  things.  High- 
sounding  phrases  will  not  rebuild  a  ruined  world. 

Our  rich  people  are  dying  too  rich  and  our  uni- 
versities are  living  too  poor. 

Diversion  is  a  subject  of  real  importance.  Dur- 
ing the  period  of  recreation  the  moral  system  is  re- 
laxed, and  when  the  system  is  relaxed,  physically  or 
morally,   the  pores   are   open  to   take  in  whatever 


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poison  may  be  about  in  the  surrounding  atmosphere. 
And  a  man  must  absorb  some  of  the  spirit  of  his 
fellow  men  about  him.  Another  thing,  it  is  exceed- 
ingly capable  of  abuse  for  this  reason:  If  you  go  to 
recreate,  you  can't  stop  to  study  whether  you  will 
get  any  benefit  from  it  or  not.  It  would  not  be 
recreation  then.  If  you  don't  study  its  character 
before  you  get  into  it,  you  won't  do  so  afterwards. 

Many  say  we  preach  more  against  theatergoing 
and  dancing  than  we  do  against  stealing.  That  is 
true.  What  is  the  use  of  preaching  against  stealing 
when  no  one  in  the  congregation  is  going  to  steal? 
You  begin  at  the  border  when  you  are  backsliding. 
When  you  are  backslidden  you  may  get  to  stealing. 
You  will  have  to  break  down  at  the  border  first,  how- 
ever. We  must  fortify  the  border,  where  the  world 
comes  in  contact  with  the  Church. 

The  need  of  recreation  is  founded  in  our  nature; 
the  need  of  religion  is  founded  in  our  nature ;  and 
what  is  unfriendly  to  religion  is  unfriendly  to  the 
uses  of  recreation. 

From  highest  to  lowest  stage  plays  seem  to  exist 
under  a  law  of  degeneration. 

A  vast  deal  of  the  wit  that  passes  for  wit  in  the 
theater  is  feathered  from  unclean  birds. 

Theatergoing  involves  moral  cannibalism.  It  is 
moral  cannibalism  to  be  feeding  upon  the  characters 
of  men  and  women  that  go  around  the  country  in  a 


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business  which  inevitably  damages  them.  It  is  feed- 
ing like  cannibals  upon  people  that  are  God-created 
and  Christ-redeemed. 

Is  it  quite  safe,  not  to  say  in  keeping  with  that 
charity  which  vaunteth  not  itself,  for  one  to  resist 
this  consensus  of  the  Christian  world? 

If  the  theater  were  such  an  excellent  teacher  of 
morals  as  some  would  have  us  believe,  we  should  now 
and  then,  at  least,  find  a  conversion  in  the  playhouse. 

Shall  we  ever  succeed  in  arresting  these  evils? 
Yes,  the  Bible,  in  letter  and  spirit,  is  against  the 
theater,  and  nothing  shall  stand  against  that  Word. 
I  worship  toward  the  rising  sun.  The  theatergoers 
are  in  a  losing  cause.  They  will  not  succeed.  The 
law  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest  will  not  suffer  them 
to  succeed. 

"Brethren,  the  Church  is  of  God."  It  is  not  an 
institution  of  human  invention  or  earthly  origin. 

As  the  family  is  ordained  to  sanctify  and  safe- 
guard man's  domestic  life,  and  the  State  to  protect 
and  promote  his  social  welfare,  so  the  Church  is  es- 
tablished to  serve  the  ends  of  his  spiritual  existence. 
All  are  institutions  of  divine  appointment.  They 
are  interrelated  for  the  advantage  of  all,  and  in 
their  respective  spheres  all  are  alike  essential  to  the 
well-being  of  the  human  race.  Without  the  family, 
the  relations  of  parent  and  child  are  reduced  to  the 
level  of  brutality,  and  the  homes  of  earth  are  dis- 


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solved;  without  the  State,  the  social  system  is  de- 
stroyed, and  anarchy  reigns  over  its  ruins ;  and  with- 
out the  Church,  mankind  must  be  without  hope  and 
without  God  in  the  world. 

"Where  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  is,  there  is  liberty," 
but  not  license  to  live  as  one  lists  and  "work  all 
uncleanness  with  greediness." 

One  devout  and  grateful  soul,  anointing  the  head 
of  her  Saviour,  washing  his  feet  with  her  penitential 
tears  and  wiping  them  with  the  hairs  of  her  head,  has 
done  more  to  feed  the  hungry  through  the  centuries 
following  than  have  all  the  calculating  critics  of  reli- 
gion who  ever  carped  at  piety  and  concealed  their 
faithlessness  under  pretenses  of  caring  for  the  poor. 

Unthinking  men  who  have  amassed  wealth  feel  that 
they  are  an  all-sufficient  providence  for  themselves. 

It  is  the  God  of  Sinai  and  Calvary  who  giveth  men 
and  nations  the  power  to  get  wealth,  and  he  will  not 
submit  to  be  defied  by  the  power  wliich  he  imparts. 
The  trade  winds  are  in  the  fists  of  him  who  calmed 
the  storm  on  the  Galilean  lake. 

The  Church  must  outrank  the  countinghouse,  or 
both  must  go  down  in  ruin  beneath  the  polluting 
power  of  a  corrupting  covetousness. 

Truly  the  Churches  have  been  about  their  Master's 
business  when  engaged  in  educational  work. 

The  spirituality  of  the  Church,  revealing  her  risen 
Lord,  is  the  most  fundamental  element  of  her  exist- 


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ence,  and  to  tliis  all  her  other  gifts  and  efforts  must 
minister. 

The  undue  multiplication  of  laws  is  the  sure  mark 
of  a  declining  life  in  the  souls  of  men. 

The  breadth  of  the  catholicity  of  any  Christian 
denomination  is  measured  by  the  depth  of  its  spirit- 
uality. 

Every  Church  must  seek  the  conversion  of  the 
world  to  Christ ;  but  it  may  not,  without  sin,  seek 
the  conquest  of  other  Churches  for  itself. 

Every  Church  consults  both  its  duty  and  its  in- 
terest by  finding  and  filling  its  own  place  in  the  king- 
dom of  heaven ;  and  when  any  Church  intrudes  into 
a  field  to  which  God  has  not  called  it,  it  is  as  a  bird 
that  wandereth  from  her  nest.  Sooner  or  later,  it 
must  grieve  that  it  has  erred  from  the  way  and  con- 
fess with  shamefacedness  that  it  has  left  undone  those 
things  which  it  ought  to  have  done,  and  done  those 
things  which  it  ought  not  to  have  done. 

The  true  catholicity  of  a  Church  Is  its  genuine 
participation  in  the  life  of  Its  risen  Lord  and  its 
uninterrupted  enjoyment  of  the  communion  of  saints. 
Otherwise  the  ecumenical  element  has  never  yet  been 
realized  in  the  household  of  faith. 

The  opening  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  at  Panama 
brings  the  Orient  to  our  doors  and  creates  also  new 
and  speedier  lines  of  communication  with  other  na- 


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tions  in  the  Western  Hemisphere.  The  face  of  the 
world  is  changed,  and  the  missionary  work  of  the 
Church  is  no  longer  so  much  a  foreign  movement  as 
a  domestic  necessity. 

Every  blessing  that  our  Lord  grants  to  his  Church 
is  a  call  to  larger  and  better  service  in  his  kingdom. 

There  is  notliing  that  our  Church  ought  to  do 
which  it  cannot  do. 

The  South  is  rich,  and  growing  richer  with  alarm- 
ing swiftness;  but  the  South  is  far  behind  other 
sections  in  the  matter  of  the  benevolent  use  of  wealth. 
Our  prosperity  far  exceeds  our  philanthropy. 

A  few  days  ago  I  heard  of  a  Georgian,  whom  I 
had  not  suspected  of  having  an  estate  exceeding  one 
million  dollars,  confessing  that  he  had  eight  millions 
and  did  not  know  what  to  do  with  it.  Why  does  he 
not  take  counsel  of  Christ  about  how  to  use  wealth.'' 
He  is  an  old  man,  who  must  soon  stand  before  the 
judgment  bar  of  Christ.  .Then  whose  will  all  his 
wealth  be? 


PART  II. 

FROM    EXTEMPORANEOUS   SER- 
MONS,  SPEECHES,  ADDRESSES. 

Chapter  I.  Extemporaneous  Sermons  and  Lectures  at 
Emory  College,  1894-98.  (From  a  Student's  Note- 
book.) 

Chapter  II.  Newspaper  Reports  of  Sermons  and  Ad- 
dresses. 

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CHAPTER  I. 

Extemporaneous  Sermons  and  Lectures  at  Emory 
College,  1894-98. 

(From  a  student's  notebook.) 

Superstition  is  preferable  to  skepticism. 

All  who  profess  religion  are  priests. 

Nothing  great  and  good  can  develop  in  an  atmos- 
phere of  cliilling  criticism. 

There  is  no  new  truth:  Reformers  are  sent — al- 
ways— back  to  first  principles.  Christ,  the  greatest 
Reformer,  came  not  to  destroy,  but  to  fulfill. 

There  are  certain  great  fundamental  virtues  that 
come  only  by  suffering.  We  are  told  that  "tribula- 
tion worketh  patience,"  and  no  other  prescription  is 
given. 

Paul  was  of  so  great  a  stature  as  to  cast  his  shad- 
ow through  all  history. 

Job,  the  only  star  of  the  first  magnitude  that 
shone  in  that  Arabian  waste,  had  upon  him  no  less 
the  radiance  of  his  hope  and  faith  than  the  agony 
of  his  suffering,  receiving  within  himself,  as  he  seemed 
to  do,  the  shocks  of  God's  wrath. 

Altogether  for  Christ !  This  means  sacrifice ;  but 
not  to  do  it  means  a  greater  sacrifice. 

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This  great  motive — fellowship  in  the  sufferings  of 
Christ — should  enter  into,  dignify,  exalt,  and  trans- 
figure the  everyday  life  until  it  is  in  each  part  im- 
portant and  is  itself  a  part  of  one  stupendous  whole. 

The  great  truths  are  blood-stained. 

The  extravagance  of  conviction  is  worth  all  your 
calculating  common  sense. 

You  are  not  to  seek  to  be  a  man  by  retreating  to 
solitude.  We  are  strong  in  the  "inner  man,"  not 
secret  places, 

Benjamin  Franklin  was  the  archdeacon  of  selfish- 
ness— a  preacher  of  penny  philosophy. 

"Honesty  is  the  best  policy !" — which  is  to  say,  "I 
would  steal,  if  I  dared  ;  but  I've  got  too  much  worldly 
wisdom.'- 

Bowing  before  public  opinion  is  servile  when  it 
breaks  with  the  right. 

"Why  halt  ye  between  two  opinions?"  It  was  as 
if  Elijah  had  asked,  "Why  do  you  hop  about,  like 
a  bird,  from  limb  to  limb,  first  on  one  side,  then  on 
the  other;  on  the  right,  and  then  on  the  left,  of  the 
tree? — get  on  one  side  and  stay  there!" 

Great  characters  become  complete  only  in  perspec- 
tive. Like  mountains,  they  tower  so  high  above  us 
when  we  are  near  them  that  we  can  catch  a  view  of 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    109 

only  a  part  and  thus  miss  the  pleasure  of  beholding 
the  figure  in  its  proper  proportion. 

God  hears  his  lamb's  cry,  even  on  the  farthest 
mountain,  and  goes  and  gets  it  and,  rejoicing,  puts 
it  in  the  fold.  .  .  .  God  rejoices,  too,  in  having  the 
whole  flock ! 

The  book  of  Revelation  is  inspired — how  could  a 
fisherman  have  written  thus,  uninspired? 

A  Church  may  be  active  and  yet  die.  Activity  is 
a  good  thing,  but  is  to  be  kept  in  its  place  and  it 
must  be  inspired  by  love  of  Christ  and  not  by  a 
spirit  that  says,  "This  is  my  work,  and  therefore 
Very  great !" 

A  great  doctrine  taken  into  the  heart  warms  it 
with  a  great  heat. 

It  is  a  sad  thing  to  see  love  die:  to  see,  in  the 
secret  chamber  of  the  heart,  reason,  immortal  mem- 
ory, imagination,  all  inside  about  the  bed  of  a  dead 
love — how  sad  it  is  ! 

While  love  burns  bright  in  Methodism,  no  division 
on  doctrine  will  come. 

The  Christian  fights  a  soldier's  battle  and  gains 
the  victor's  crown. 

To  be  for  both  God  and  mammon  at  the  same  time 
is  as  impossible  as  to  go  East  and  West  at  the  same 
time. 


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The  Christian  should  aim  to  be  a  full-orbed  man, 
not  a  spiritual  specialist. 

There  is  no  ignorance  as  black  as  that  of  the 
omniscient  man.  On  no  topic  is  his  authority  to  be 
received  as  final. 

The  worldly  motive  changes  and  frets  and  worries 
us,  but  this  motive  of  the  other  world  is  like  that 
other  world,  unchanging,  and  gives  to  us  the  peace 
that  passeth  understanding. 

When  your  breath  shows  on  the  morning  air,  it 
is  not  smoke  from  3'ou,  but  the  frost  of  the  world; 
so,  when  your  goodness  seems  so  great,  it  is  not 
because  of  your  excellence,  but  because  of  the  great 
wickedness  of  the  world. 

There  has  been  no  moral  discovery  since  Jesus 
Christ. 

Jesus  is  as  absolutely  solitary  in  his  words  as  in 
his  character. 

Jesus  the  homeless  maker  of  homes :  Every  man 
went  unto  his  own  home — Jesus  went  to  the  Mount 
of  Olives  !     (John  vii.  53  and  viii.  1.) 

Jesus  was  his  own  king  of  time.  He  is  the  Lord 
of  the  hours  and,  as  they  go  by,  he  chooses  the  one 
that  should  be  his  own.     (John  vii.  33,  34.) 

"If  any  man  love  not  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  let 
him  be  Anathema  Maran-atha."      (1   Cor.  xvi.  22.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    111 

What  is  the  connection  of  this  exclamation  with  the 
preceding?  It  seems  like  a  volcano  heaving  its  huge, 
unwieldy  mass  up  in  a  level  plain  and  pouring  forth 
its  long-pent-up  lava,  smoke,  and  flame.  This  is  only 
apparently  so — but  why  is  it  here?  (a)  Because 
little  duties  will  be  well  discharged  only  by  letting 
them  take  their  rise  in  some  mighty  motive.  Such 
an  one  is  this  love  of  Christ  for  which  a  man  is  ac- 
cursed if  he  does  not  possess  it.  (b)  Because  with- 
out this  [love  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ]  man  will 
fail  of  the  end  of  life,  which  is  to  love  God.  [Only 
by  loving  Christ  can  one  come  to  love  either  God  or 
man.] 

Can  we  love  man  and  not  love  God?  as  say  many. 
No !  The  engineer  says,  "Let's  do  away  with  all  this 
combustion.  We'll  get  on  the  'Accommodation'  and 
go  to  Atlanta,  because  the  wheels  are  circular  and 
turn."  So  they  [mere  humanitarians]  would  run  the 
engine  without  fuel ! 

God  chose  the  Jewish  race  through  whom  to  bring 
Messiah — not  that  religion  was  narrowed,  but  con- 
centrated. 

The  place  of  a  human  soul  in  God's  economy  is  so 
important  that  it  draws  about  it  all  the  interest  of 
the  Almighty  and  all  the  auxiliaries  of  the  skies. 
So,  man,  lift  up  the  gates  of  thy  heart,  and  let  the 
King  of  Glory  come  in ! 

Only  a  few  men  and  ideas  permanently  affect  us. 
Paul's  great  idea  is  Jesus  Christ  and  him  cruciried. 
For  this,  he  counts  all  things  loss. 


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An  abstract  idea  has  no  power  in  itself,  but  is 
given  potency  by  being  incarnated.  The  idea 
changes  the  man — the  man  the  world! 

Ambition  clings  most  persistently  to  the  soul. 
Defeated  once,  it  comes  again  and  again.  It  is 
omnivorous.  It  sacrifices  all  things  else  to  itself  and 
counts  all  things  as  naught  but  those  that  forward 
its  aim  and  purpose. 

The  Mount  of  Calvary  is  the  only  standpoint  for 
a  Christian  to  look  upon  the  world. 

It  is  objected  that  Greek  and  Latin  are  dead 
languages.  Dead!  They  died  like  corn  that  falls 
into  the  ground  and  bears  much  fruit.  Words  from 
these  tongues  have  filtered  down  into  the  speech  of 
our  common  people.  Does  a  boy  die  when  he  be- 
comes a  man.'* 

Touch  the  spirit  of  civilization  by  getting  and 
mastering  great  books. 

Fashion  your  tongue  to  high  and  noble  speech  and 
your  mind  to  lofty  thought. 

Christ,  the  suffering  Messiah,  penetrates  to  the 
highest  heights  of  another  world  and  the  deepest 
needs  of  this  world. 

Self-indulgence  is  the  law  of  death;  self-denial  is 
the  law  of  life. 

Duty  is   a  higher  word  than  personal   right   or 


HON.  ASA  G.  CANDLER,  SR. 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    113 

prerogative.      Better  suffer  a  wrong  than  assert  a 
right  in  a  wrong  way :  sacrifice  self  to  save  others. 

In  the  Psalms  we  find  an  echo  from  every  heart 
and  to  every  heart. 

Christian  meekness  is  teachableness — not  an  obsti- 
nate amiability,  but  a  sincere  desire  to  learn. 

There  is  one  evil  to  be  especially  guarded  against 
in  a  republic — that  is,  following  the  crowd. 

Christ  demands  that  we  leave  the  crowd.  He  did 
so,  although  he  desired  to  be  loved.  But  he  could 
not  have  both  their  love  and  do  his  work,  so  he  left 
them. 

No  good  man  despises  the  opinion  of  the  world, 
and  it  causes  him  great  pain  to  alienate  himself  from 
human  companionship. 

I  would  be  glad  to  have  the  world ;  but  if  it  can- 
not be  had,  I  can  do  without  it. 

To  take  the  form  of  this  world,  just  be  still  and 
do  nothing.     (Rom.  xii.  1,  2.) 

Youth  and  the  unfortunate  are  both  in  the  major- 
ity in  the  world. 

The  sorrowful  are  like  those  sad  birds  who  fill  the 
last  moments  of  the  dying  day  with  their  plaintive 
melody. 
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114)    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

The  kingdom  of  God  comes  not  with  observation, 
but  is  leaven.  Paul  did  not  try  to  reform  the  Roman 
Empire,  but  to  get  religion  into  individual  hearts. 
Then  the  shackles  would  fall  from  the  slave  and  the 
government  would  be  pure  and  good. 

God  perfects  every  true  man's  work. 

It  was  the  habit  of  Jesus's  whole  life  to  quote 
from  the  Scriptures. 

Where  duty  is  to  be  done,  there  is  no  place  for 
the  question  of  its  feasibility — simply  do  it! 

"I  am — now — the  resurrection"  !  I  soothe  the 
hearts !  In  these  words  of  Jesus,  is  the  cure  of  the 
world's  woe. 

Life  is  older  than  death,  and  shall  be  afterwards. 
[Life  was  before  Death,  and  shall  be  afterwards !] 

Christ,  in  his  life,  had  one  great  plan  of  salvation 
to  work  out ;  yet,  in  working  it  out,  he  did  not  shut 
men  away  from  him,  but  walked  among  them,  and 
his  paths  drop  with  the  fatness  of  his  deeds  of  mercy. 

To  work  for  God,  a  man  must  be  diligent.  The 
tired  Christ  worked  right  on,  even  while  resting  on 
the  well. 

The  Christian  worker  sows  and  reaps  at  the  same 
time. 

This  is  not  a  "funeral"  in  the  common  acceptation 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    115 

of  the  word,  but  we  are  at  the  gates  of  heaven,  even 
Mahanaim ! 

Christ,  more  than  any  other  historical  character, 
was  in  closest  and  most  permanent  contact  with  the 
spiritual  world. 

Our  government  is  the  outgrowth  of  suffering 
and  had  its  birth  in  the  death-throes  of  our  patriot 
fathers. 

Ours  is  an  age  of  jests  and  jokers.  That  people 
that  demands  to  be  daily  fed  on  mental  condiments 
is  just  as  surely  diseased  as  the  epicure — no,  that 
is  too  decent  a  name  for  such  as  these — rather  the 
glutton,  who  is  no  sooner  seated  than  he  begins  to 
gorge  himself  on  the  dainties,  the  pickles,  the  sweet- 
meats, having  long  since  lost  all  relish  for  wholesome 
food. 


CHAPTER  II. 

Newspaper  Reports  of  Sermons  and  Addresses. 

The  Church  has  no  methods  save  the  impulses  or- 
dered bj  the  Head  of  the  Church,  just  as  (in  the 
human  body)  the  arms  or  the  feet  obey  the  order  of 
the  head. 

The  Church  rehes  upon  supernatural  and  supra- 
mundane  forces.  The  only  life  it  has  is  given  from 
the  risen  Lord. 

The  keynote  of  the  whole  gospel  is  the  redemption 
of  men.  The  business  of  the  Church  is  not  to  reform 
political  bodies,  not  to  ameliorate  conditions,  but  to 
preach  a  salvation  that  saves.  The  only — the  sol- 
emn— business  of  the  Church  is  to  preach,  preach, 
and  preach  the  great  salvation  of  Jesus  Christ. 

Some  Methodists  are  graduates  of  ambiguity. 

We  have  bragged  too  much  of  our  liberality.  We 
will  spend  half  our  salary  to  entertain  a  friend,  but 
we  are  slow  in  giving  to  educational  institutions. 

The  age  limits  for  the  students  in  the  higher  in- 
stitutions of  learning  are  from  sixteen  to  about 
twenty-five,  the  very  time  when  the  characters  of 
our  children  are  most  impressionable.  Then  is  the 
time  when  their  characters  should  be  influenced  by 
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Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    117 

the  family  altar  and  the  kind,  loving  care  of  mother. 
Hence,  at  college  we  must  place  right  influences 
about  them  and  we  must  there  teach  them  the  Bible. 

The  chief  aim  of  man  should  be  to  be  like  God. 

The  tendency  of  the  press  and  of  some  preachers 
is  to  deceive  the  people  with  glittering  promises, 
trying  to  say  in  clear  untruth  that  religion  never 
was  designed  to  make  our  pleasures  less.  But  reli- 
gion was  designed  to  make  less  every  pleasure  that 
is  wrong. 

The  terms  of  discipleship  are  self-denial  and  cross- 
bearing  with  Christ — that  thorn  in  the  flesh  that  is 
ever  pressingly  present  and  which  is  made  tolerable 
only  with  the  promise,  "My  grace  is  sufficient  for 
you." 

The  narrow  way  must  be  entered  through  the 
strait  gate.  The  path  never  widens  into  broad  pas- 
tures. The  way  is  always  narrow  until  it  reaches 
the  pearly  gate,  and  the  posts  of  the  pearly  gate  are 
no  wider  than  those  of  the  gate  of  repentance. 

Peter,  James,  and  John  went  on  Hermon  to  see 
the  Saviour  transfigured  in  his  glory,  and  were  made 
to  know  that  the  cross  gave  Jesus  a  grasp  on  powers 
far  beyond  the  world  in  the  heavenly  eternities. 

Mankind  seems  to  seek  everything  cheaply,  yet  at 
a  great  cost.  Cain's  cheap  plan  of  worship  made 
him  the  first  murderer  and  a  vagabond  all  the  days 
of  his  life. 


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An  Orphans'  Home  Anniversary  is  only  possible 
in  a  Christian  land.  Such  homes  do  not  spring  from 
good  nature,  but  from  the  influence  of  Jesus. 

Some  say  the  Church  has  too  many  burdens.  If 
our  hearts  were  only  Christly,  there  are  enough  he- 
roic dollars  in  the  Church  to  carry  every  burden  and 
rejoice  in  them! 

No  Church  has  executed  its  commission  from  the 
Master,  unless  it  cares  for  the  widow  and  the  orphan. 

The  early  Church  sold  to  give ;  the  modern  Church 
buys  more  to  keep  from  giving. 

We  often  think  that  had  we  been  with  Jesus  we 
would  never  have  done  as  Judas.  But  here  to-day 
we  have  Christ  represented  in  every  child  we  meet. 
How  do  we  treat  him  as  seen  in  these.'' 

We  can  find  Jesus  in  every  child.     (Matt,  xviii.  5.) 

If  Jesus  saves  the  world,  the  able  must  help  the 
weak. 

All  this  Orphans'  Home  has  spent  in  twenty-five 
years  would  have  been  well  spent  if  it  had  saved  your 
boy.  If  you  were  dying,  how  would  you  feel  about 
it.? 

My  heart  goes  out  with  extreme  longing  for  my 
dead  children.  But  it  had  been  much  worse  for  them 
if  I  had  died  and  left  them.  It  seems  that,  if  I  were 
in  heaven  and  could  see  them  here  in  danger  and  in 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    119 

need,  I  would  crave  to  break  out  of  heaven  and  come 
back  to  help  them. 

The  agnostic  plumes  himself  on  a  so-called  mod- 
esty, a  mental  modesty ;  but  it  is  simply  a  confession 
of  mental  incompetence  and  moral  cowardice. 

There  is  no  mate  to  Christ,  and  no  help  beyond 
him. 

John  had  been  preaching  Jesus  as  the  Lamb  of 
God  that  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world.  There 
was  none  born  of  woman  greater  than  he.  But  John 
gave  offense  to  Herod  and  was  cast  into  prison,  and 
as  he  lay  breathing  the  pestilential  atmosphere  of 
the  dungeon  his  faith  was  trembling  in  the  balance. 
The  wounded  eagle  had  fallen  from  his  highest  flight 
and  lay  with  dimmed  and  glazing  eye,  unable  to  rec- 
ognize the  sun.  But  John  had  two  principles  left : 
he  would  not  be  an  atheist,  for  he  knew  there  was  a 
God;  nor  an  agnostic,  for  he  knew  there  had  been 
revelation.  And  when  he  sent  his  disciples  unto 
Jesus,  asking  if  he  were  indeed  the  Messiah,  Jesus 
adapted  the  answer  to  the  condition  of  the  ques- 
tioner, as  he  always  did,  and  said :  "Go  and  tell  John 
the  things  which  ye  do  hear  and  see:  the  blind  re- 
ceive their  sight,  .  .  .  and  the  poor  have  the  gospel 
preached  to  them." 

The  Latin  dreamed  of  Him,  the  Greek  sighed  for 
Him,  all  the  world  called  for  Him,  and  the  prophet 
foreshadowed  Him  as  "the  desire  of  all  nations." 

Christ  came  to  cure  sin ;  not  as  a  reformer,  for  we 
are  not  deformed,  but  to  cure. 


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The  death  pang  of  Jesus  Christ  was  the  birth  pang 
of  human  hope. 

How  often  do  we  hear  some  pastor  say :  "We  have 
in  our  Church  only  the  better  classes";  "Mine  is 
one  of  the  first  Churches  in  the  city,"  Christ  would 
have  scorched  such  sayings.  He  said:  "We  can  make 
something  out  of  even  the  humblest  and  most  fallen 
in  the  slums  of  sin." 

Who  are  you?  Why,  you  say,  you  don't  know 
who  my  ancestors  were.  No,  I  don't  and  you  don't 
either.  The  idea  of  a  Georgian  trying  to  trace  his 
ancestry  to  Robert  Bruce  is  the  abomination  of 
desolation  standing  where  it  should  not.  Not  long 
since,  one  of  these  little  dilettante  preachers,  who 
had  by  mistake  been  appointed  to  a  city  Church 
when  he  should  have  been  on  a  backwoods  circuit, 
wrote  me  a  letter.  He  had  risen  too  high.  He  was 
breathing  air  too  rarefied  for  his  health.  He  wanted 
to  know  how  he  could  reach  the  masses.  I  got  me 
a  piece  of  foolscap  (and  I  used  the  right  sort  of 
stationery  for  his  kind),  and  I  told  him  the  right 
way  to  reach  the  masses  was  to  get  in  reach  of  the 
masses.  But  the  masses  didn't  want  to  get  in  reach 
of  that  sort  of  a  little  pulpiteer;  they  didn't  want 
to  catch  anything  he  had.  Reach  the  masses  .f*  Die 
for  them  ?    That's  how  to  reach  the  masses. 

Christ  was  isolated.  When  the  good  shepherd 
wandered  over  the  mountains  in  search  of  his  bruised 
lamb,  he  had  the  welcome  of  his  neighbors  when  he 
returned.     When  the  woman  took  a  light  to  search 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    121 

for  the  piece  of  silver  that  was  lost,  she  had  the 
rejoicings  of  her  neighbors  when  it  was  found.  When 
the  father  met  the  prodigal  son  returned,  he  had  his 
friends  to  come  in  for  a  great  rejoicing.  But  when 
the  sad-hearted,  dying  Son  of  God  went  for  his  lambs 
and  his  lost  treasures,  he  was  alone:  alone  in  this 
world,  but  there  was  rejoicing  in  the  presence  of  the 
angels  over  the  repentance  of  every  sinner. 

When  Jerry  McAuley  lay  dead,  his  bier  was 
heaped  with  flowers,  ofl'erings  of  the  women  of  Five 
Points,  whom  he  had  long  sought  to  save.  It  was  a 
tribute  like  the  perfume  of  the  alabaster  box  of 
ointment  poured  upon  the  Master  long  ago. 

As  is  well  known,  Bishop  Candler  Is  not  a  tall  man.  In 
November,  1902,  he  presided  at  the  session  of  the  North 
Georgia  Annual  Conference  in  Atlanta.  Tables  had  been 
placed  just  in  front  of  the  Bishop's  chair  for  the  use  of 
the  newspaper  men.  At  one  time,  during  the  session,  a 
number  happened  to  be  standing  about  these  tables.  Just 
behind  this  group  of  standing  men,  a  member  of  the  Con- 
ference, no  taller  than  the  Bishop,  arose  to  address  the 
chair.  His  voice  could  be  heard  by  the  Bishop,  but  he  could 
not  be  seen.  Lifting  his  hand  for  silence,  the  Bishop  said, 
"Hold  on,  brother,  just  a  moment.  You  and  I  are  like 
Zacchaeus:  little  of  stature,  and  I  cannot  come  at  you  for 
the  press!" 

A  newspaper  quotes  Bishop  Candler  as  saying:  "Several 
years  ago,  I  sent  an  article  to  a  paper  in  which  I  said, 
'We  pray  too  loud  and  work  too  little.'  The  intelligent 
compositor  got  in  his  fine  Italian  hand,  and  when  the 
article  appeared  it  read,  'We  bray  too  loud  and  work  too 
little.'  I  let  it  go  at  that.  The  fact  is,  I  believe  the  printer 
was  right,  and  I  never  attempted  to  correct  It!" 

People  have  no  right  to  question  the  words  of  the 
Bible,  but  independent  Americans  have  come  to  the 


122    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

point  where  they  imagine  they  have  a  right  to  vote 
on  everything.  There  are  some  folks  who  would  have 
the  Ten  Commandments  or  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount 
put  up  at  a  local  option  election  to  determine  wheth- 
er or  not  they  met  with  the  approval  of  the  majority. 

The  only  possible  place  for  a  Christian  is  in  the 
Church  of  God. 

The  Church  of  God  is  as  companionless  among  the 
organizations  of  earth  as  Christ  was  companionless 
among  men. 

Make  no  mistake  as  to  the  body  of  Christ  (the 
Church)  ;  it  is  no  statue,  no  galvanized  corpse  or 
dummy  or  manikin  of  any  sort.  A  body  is  an  or- 
ganized being  that  gives  outward  expression  of  an 
interior  active  principle. 

This  [world]  war  has  made  us  rich — you'll  have 
a  larger  yield  of  greens  than  of  greatness. 

I  wonder  why  Ananias  and  Sapphira  died  so  sud- 
denly and  Herodotus  lived  to  such  a  great  age ! 

Selfishness  will  make  sensuality.  Why?  Because 
when  we  practice  selfishness  we  lose  the  power  of 
self-denial — hence,  sensuality. 

The  miracle  of  Balaam's  time  was  one  ass  talking; 
that  of  our  day  would  be  to  stop  them ! 

Be  not  like   the  Pharisee  who   went   to   say   his 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    123 

prayers  and  delivered  a  memorial  address  upon  him- 
self before  he  died. 

"Peace  hath  her  victories  no  less  renowned  than 
war,"  and  it  has  its  perils  no  less  dangerous  than  war. 

We  are  only  trusted  in  so  far  as  we  are  true,  and 
that  is  as  far  as  we  ought  to  be  trusted. 

Not  many  opulent  are  called.  There  were  many 
rich  men  in  Judea  in  Jesus's  day ;  and,  though  he 
was  short  of  material  for  apostles,  only  one  was 
called  and  he  committed  suicide — which  was  the  most 
courageous  thing  he  ever  did ! 

You  have  seen  an  old  pistol  loaded  so  long  that 
it  wouldn't  fire ;  so  you  can  keep  your  head  so 
filled  with  mere  learning  that  your  brain  can't  shoot ! 

Many  are  ready  to  tell  us  how  to  "reconstruct 
the  world."  Indeed !  They  are  dumb  on  the  things 
they  ought  to  have  spoken  about  and  chattering 
about  the  things  they  ought  to  have  left  alone. 

Some  have  more  gifts  of  locomotion  than  of  stay- 
ing in  a  state  of  war — and  reverse  motion  at  that ! 

A  Methodist  preacher  can't  resign,  don't  you 
know  that?  You'd  resign  !  To  whom?  To  the  Bish- 
op? To  the  Board  of  Stewards?  Why,  you  might 
as  well  resign  to  the  water  board,  or  to  the  health 
board,  or  better  still  to  the  veterinary  board.  [Loud 
laughter.]     If  you  do  resign,  and  they  enforce  the 


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Discipline  on  you,  then  I  hope  you'll  resign — your- 
self to  your  fate. 

You  object  to  the  secrecy  of  the  Cabinet's  pro- 
ceedings. I  saw  the  public  [making  of]  appoint- 
ments in  Great  Britain.  I  was  like  Job's  war  horse: 
"I  sniffed  the  battle  from  afar"  and  was  glad  I 
wasn't  in  it.  You  say  you  don't  like  our  system. 
Well,  I  wouldn't  work  in  it  if  I  were  you.  And  you 
think  that  Churches  that  call  their  preachers  are 
better.  From  my  observation,  in  that  Church  it  maj' 
be  truly  said,  "Many  are  called,  but  few  are  chosen." 

If  you  hear  anybody  saying  I  said  I  was  going  to 
do  something  about  a  certain  appointment,  you  tell 
'em  I  said  they  are  lying — under  a  delusion. 

Why  don't  you  preachers  study  the  Discipline.'^ 
Why,  I  have  even  had  some  preachers,  who  ought  to 
know  better,  to  telegraph  me  for  an  Episcopal  de- 
cision. You'd  just  as  well  send  me  a  lock  of  your 
hair  to  cure  your  corns;  I  don't  practice  medicine 
that  way. 

I  want  to  warn  you  against  a  prevalent  disposi- 
tion, attributable  to  the  conditions  brought  about 
by  the  war,  to  teach  school  in  the  bounds  of  your 
charge.  You  can't  whip  the  "chillun"  in  the  week 
and  preach  to  their  "daddies  and  mammies"  on  Sun- 
day. In  ten  years  in  the  schoolroom,  I  knew  only 
one  man  who  thought  I  did  right  in  disciplining  his 
child.  He  was  elected  Governor  of  the  State  and 
ought  to  have  been  elected  President. 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    125 

Let  textual  troubles  be  what  they  may,  the  value 
of  the  Old  Testament  is  argued  with  overwhelming 
force  from  the  fact  that  the  apostles  were  powerful 
through  the  Scriptures. 

When  you  are  dead  in  earnest  your  words  will  be 
simple. 

The  old  books  are  the  best  because  the  world  won't 
keep  any  but  first-class  ones. 

I'll  name  you  two  books  which  will  strengthen  a 
man's  mind:  Richard  Watson's  "Institutes,"  and 
Butler's  "Analogy."  Dr.  James  A.  Duncan  used  to 
say  to  young  preachers,  "Study  Butler's  'Analogy' 
in  the  week  and  preach  to  the  negroes  on  Sunday," 
in  order  that  they  might  be  both  strong  in  mind  and 
simple  in  speech. 

By  the  right  use  of  time,  even  a  weak  man  may 
accumulate  resources  of  strength. 

Hugh  Miller  used  his  time  so  well  that  the  Old 
Red  Sandstone  finally  spoke  to  him  with  tongues  of 
fire. 

The  kind  of  influence  that  you  should  desire  is 
not  that  fictitious  and  factitious  influence  of  personal 
attachment  (which  the  settled  pastorate  sometimes 
gives  a  man),  but  the  tremendous  influence  of  our 
gospel. 


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On  one  occasion,  a  somewhat  consequential  layman  was 
talking  with  Bishop  Candler,  when  he  asked  this  question: 
*'Bishop,  why  is  it  we  have  so  many  poor,  good-for- 
nothing  preachers?" 

Without  changing  the  modulation  of  his  voice  or  moving 
a  muscle  of  his  face,  Bishop  Candler  replied,  "Well,  I  don't 
know,  unless  It  Is  because  of  the  sort  of  laymen  we  have  to 
make  them  out  ofl" 


PART  III. 
FROM  PUBLISHED  BOOKS. 

Chapter  I.  "History  of  Sunday  Schools." 

Chapter  II.  "Georgia's  Educational  Work." 

Chapter  III,  "Christus  Auctor." 

Chapter  IV.  "High  Living  and  High  Lives." 

Chapter  V.  "Great  Revivals  and  the  Great  Republic." 

Chapter  VI.  "Wesley  and    His  Work;  or,  Methodism 

and  Missions." 
Chapter  VII.  "Practical    Studies    in  the    Fourth    Gos- 
pel," Vol.  I. 
Chapter  VIII.  "Practical    Studies  in  the  Fourth  Gos- 
pel," Vol.  II. 
Chapter  IX.  "The  Kingdom  of  God's  Dear  Son." 

(127) 


CHAPTER  I. 

History  of  Sunday  Schools. 

It  has  no  predecessor  for  a  model,  and  deserves 
some  consideration  of  criticism  from  this  fact. 
(Preface.) 

Great  moral  enterprises  are  accretions  arising 
from  invisible  forces,  and  almost  imperceptibly  at- 
taining their  full  magnitude.     (P.  9.) 

The  Sunday  school  is  the  confluent  result  of  con- 
tributions from  nearly  every  age  of  the  world.  (P.  9.) 

When,  rebuking  the  impatient  disciples,  Jesus 
said,  "Suffer  little  children  to  come  unto  me,  and 
forbid  them  not:  for  of  such  is  the  kingdom  of 
heaven,"  he  incorporated  the  Sunday  school  germ 
in  the  constitution  of  the  future  Church.  (Pp.  H? 
12.) 

For  centuries,  the  Sunday  school  often  seems  an 
underground  stream;  but  just  as  we  begin  to  fear 
that  it  has  been  lost  forever,  we  see  it  far  off  from 
where  we  last  observed  it,  bursting  forth  again  and 
babbling  on  its  silvery  course.     (P.  12.) 

Religious   discussions  were   the  great  themes   of 
ancient  schools.     This  was  true  with  Jews  and  Gen- 
tiles, Christians  and  heathen.     Plato  and  Socrates 
9  (129) 


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and  Gamaliel  all  taught  religion.  That  was  the 
day  when  the  heart  of  man,  unhardened  by  chilly 
materialism,  studied  spiritual  things  with  an  ab- 
sorbing interest.  If  secular  information  was  im- 
parted, it  was  because  it  contributed  directly  or 
indirectly  to  spiritual  knowledge.  Men  did  not  talk 
dreamily  and  incoherently  of  culture,  and  fall  down 
and  worship  the  dimly  defined  deity.  Hence,  the 
week-day  schools  and  the  Sunday  schools  became  al- 
most, if  not  quite,  identical.    (Pp.  19,  20.) 

We  have  been  constrained  by  well-authenticated 
facts  to  classify  Mr.  Raikes  with  the  revivalists  of 
the  world,  instead  of  with  its  inventors.     (P.  14.) 

It  is  the  resultant  force  of  these  two  principles — 
namely,  the  strict  observance  of  the  Sabbath  and  the 
right  rearing  of  children — which  makes  a  Sunday 
school.     (P.  24.) 

God's  truth  may  be  suppressed  for  a  while,  but 
there  is  omnipotent  energy  deposited  in  the  leaven. 
(Pp.  25,  26.) 

Catholic  Sunday  schools  exist  only  when  and  where 
Protestant  zeal  makes  a  counter  movement  necessary. 
.  .  .  Rome  desires  a  Sunday  school  because  she  is 
greedy  of  power.  She  aims  at  the  advancement  of 
her  hierarchy,  and  not  at  the  benefit  of  the  children. 
.  .  .  But  there  have  appeared  in  her  communion, 
from  time  to  time,  good  men  whose  lives  are  insepa- 
rably connected  with  the  history  of  this  great  educa- 
tional and  spiritual  scheme.    (Pp.  32-34.) 


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People  find  it  easier  to  believe  a  popular  deception 
than  to  investigate  its  trustworthiness.    (P.  38.) 

An  error  is  not  less  an  error  because  it  is  anti- 
quated.    (P.  38.) 

The  world,  under  circumstances  in  which  informa- 
tion is  difficult  to  obtain,  falls  upon  a  mistaken  ac- 
count and  transmits  it  to  posterity  as  the  truth  of 
history.  America  would  to-day  be  called  Columbia 
had  this  not  been  true.  Columbus  was  industrious 
as  a  discoverer,  while  his  competitor  was  enterprising 
as  a  publisher.    (P.  38.) 

Originality  in  thought  and  in  plan  is  a  very  rare 
thing,  and  often  when  men  think  they  are  original 
they  have  had  the  thought  borrowed  so  long  that 
they  have  forgotten  to  whom  it  belongs.  (Pp.  38, 
39.) 

In  the  year  1793  Katy  Ferguson,  a  poor  African 
woman,  .  .  .  established  the  first  Sunday  school 
in  New  York  City.  .  .  .  Thank  God  for  the 
dusky  hands  which  broke  here  an  alabaster  box  the 
perfume  of  which  still  lingers  about  the  great  metrop- 
olis.   (Pp.  48,  49.) 

Religious  bodies  then,  as  now,  were  addicted  to 
passing  and  forgetting  a  great  many  good  resolu- 
tions.    (P.  54.) 

Great  results  are  not  ordinarily  the  consequences 
of  a  moment.     (P.  63.) 


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Genius  is  a  rare  quality,  and  the  occasions  which 
demand  it  are  equally  unusual.     (P.  63.) 

Consecrated  common  sense  to  know  what  to  do, 
and  sanctified  industry  to  obey  the  dictates  of  such 
mind,  are,  and  ever  have  been,  the  main  factors  of 
human  success.    (P.  63.) 

German  rationalism  cannot  cope  with  the  word  of 
God  in  power,  and  less  can  Romish  tradition  and 
superstition.  Once  let  that  Word  be  taught  to  the 
children,  in  the  lands  blighted  by  these  godless  sys- 
tems, and  the  next  generation  will  attend  their  funer- 
als, if,  indeed,  they  should  receive  such  respect  at 
their  decease.  The  continental  Sabbath  will  now  be- 
gin to  wane,  and  America  will  do  well  to  take  care 
that  as  Its  sun  declines  in  Europe  its  parching  beams 
do  not  fall  upon  her.    (P.  79.) 

There  is  a  mission  for  good  books,  especially  to 
the  children  of  the  poorer  classes,  which  no  peri- 
odical literature,  however  attractive  and  excellent, 
can  supply.    (P.  85.) 

As  an  auxiliary  of  other  more  didactic  methods  of 
Instruction  music  has  no  superior.  Warming  the 
sensibilities,  it  facilitates  thereby  the  passage  of 
truth  to  the  intellectual  faculties,  and  makes  the  im- 
pression more  vivid  and  moving.    (P.  86.) 

We  need  but  to  perfect  with  a  little  sensible  train- 
ing the  praise  that  Issues  from  the  "mouths  of  babes 
and  sucklings"  to  make  the  air  tremulous  with  rap- 
turous melody.     (P,  91.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    133 

A  great  Idea,  though  an  Invisible  force,  Is  the 
strongest  of  all  powers.  It  modifies  social  and  politi- 
cal Institutions,  and  demands  a  niche  In  history  by 
converting  them  to  monuments  of  Its  potency.  (P. 
92.) 

One  of  the  Incidental  but  prominent  results  of  the 
Sunday  school  movement  of  our  times  has  been  the 
development  of  unity  of  heart  and  of  action  among 
Christians  of  different  denominations.  More  than 
all  other  agencies  It  has  brought  into  active  play 
the  principle  of  associated  effort.  [The  Sunday 
School  Unions]  were  not  only  the  exponents  of  the 
great  principle  of  Christian  cooperation,  but  they 
became  the  preachers  and  propagators  of  the  doc- 
trine.    (P.  97.) 

The  Holy  Spirit  is  omnipresent,  and  moves  hearts 
far  removed  from  each  other  to  sympathetic  action. 
(P.  107.) 

From  the  first  the  Sunday  school  has  shown  itself 
to  be  a  thing  of  life,  and  not  a  dead  mechanism.  It 
has  had  a  steady  growth  of  Improvement.    (P.  110.) 

The  Welsh  may  well  be  counted  the  Bereans  of 
our  times.     (P.  112.) 

Gilbert  says  he  began  to  "see  visions"  and  to 
"dream  dreams,"  and  we  believe  the  allegation,  for, 
be  It  remembered,  dreaming  people  can  walk  where, 
waking,  they  would  break  their  necks.    (P.  120.) 

The     [Uniform     Lesson]     system     [for     Sunday 


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schools]  has  developed  the  study  of  the  word  of 
God  more  thcan  anything  employed  by  the  Church 
for  centuries.  It  almost  compels  people  not  only  to 
read  it,  but  to  understand  it.  It  has  done  much  to 
revive  the  drooping  energies  of  the  Church  in  every 
direction.  Indeed,  we  might  say  that  our  homes,  our 
pulpits,  our  churches,  our  country,  our  planet,  have 
been  immeasurably  benefited  by  it.     (P.  135.) 

It  would  be  no  venture  of  assertion  to  say  that 
the  Sunday  school's  increase  during  the  last  one  hun- 
dred years  finds  no  parallel  in  the  history  of  human 
institutions.    (P.  137.) 

The  friends  of  the  Sunday  school  enterprises  are 
no  longer  "like  scattered  warriors  in  an  enemy's 
countr}^"  but  like  triumphant  legions  coming  up  to 
possess  the  lands  of  the  whole  world.     (P.  139.) 

We  know  it  is  God's  method  to  "choose  the  weak 
things  of  the  world  to  confound  the  things  which 
are  mighty,"  but  where  humility  and  conscious  de- 
pendence upon  God  exist,  he  honors  with  his  bless- 
ing the  efforts  of  the  most  polished  intelligence  and 
the  workings  of  the  most  skillfully  arranged  en- 
ginery.   (P.  141.) 

It  is  infidelity  and  falsity  to  say  that  the  "victory 
is  on  the  side  of  the  heaviest  artillery,"  but  it  is  also 
presumption  to  trust  for  success  without  providing 
for  the  battle.     (P.  141.) 

It  is  rational  and  scriptural  to  expect  that,  other 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    135 

things  being  equal,  there  will  be  the  largest  and  the 
best  results  on  the  side  of  the  best  system.     (P.  141.) 

The  moment  the  Sunday  school  attains  perfection 
it  will  begin  to  decay,  and  out  of  its  disintegration 
will  come  forth  a  fairer  and  a  more  efficient  enter- 
prise.    (P.  142.) 

Let  us  not  become  so  charmed  with  the  fragrant, 
full-blown  flower  that  we  shall  mourn  its  loss  when 
it  is  pressed  aside  by  its  natural  fruitage ;  and  if, 
forsooth,  the  young  fruit  should  not  ripen  as  fast 
as  our  whimsical  childishness  may  desire,  let  us  not 
in  our  impatience  with  its  acidity  cast  it  away. 
(P.  142.) 

In  the  light  of  a  freely  circulated  and  fully  ex- 
plained Bible,  popish  traditions,  assumptions,  and  fic- 
tions will  vanish  "like  frost-work  beneath  the  sun  of 
the  tropics."  Such  a  result  may  make  some  people 
conclude  that  their  "life"  is  not  "worth  living" ;  but 
Protestantism  will  not  be  the  author  of  such  a  sui- 
cidal determination,  nor  will  she  engage  to  play  the 
role  of  a  mourner  at  the  grave.  She  will,  however, 
generously  grant  space  in  her  cemeteries  for  the  in- 
terment of  the  deceased  in  spite  of  his  "heretical  no- 
tions"!    (Pp.  143,  144.) 

A  pure  Christianity  is  massing  its  energies  and 
armies  for  the  conquest  of  the  world.  Conjunctions 
of  providence  and  grace  conspire  to  declare  the  com- 
ing day,  and  to  draw  aside  the  clouds  which  over- 
shadow its  dawn.  Every  day  of  these  remarkable 
times  begins  and  ends  an  epoch.    (P.  145.) 


136    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

While  figures  are  not  infallible,  nor  always  the 
best  expressions  of  a  great  work,  still  there  are  oc- 
casions when  a  resort  to  statistics  is  useful  and  de- 
sirable.    (Appendix.) 


CHAPTER  II. 

Georgia's  Educational  Work. 

Early  in  the  month  of  May,  1893,  Hon. 

stepped  back  the  distance  of  a  hundred  years  into 
the  constitutional  history  of  the  United  States  and 
Georgia  to  get  a  running  start  to  overcome  [my] 
letter  and  its  influence,  by  a  series  of  letters  printed 
in  the  Atlanta  Constitution.  He  raised  much  dust 
along  the  way  about  Dr.  Franklin,  prayers,  oaths, 
liberty  of  conscience,  etc. ;  but  finally,  when  he 
reached  the  matter  he  was  driving  for  from  the  first, 
like  the  boy  in  the  fable,  he  fell  into  the  stream  he 
sought  to  leap  across.     (P.  6.) 

I  can  almost  go  the  length  of  a  hearty  Georgian, 
who  said  to  me  to-day:  "You  speak  to  the  cleanest 
legislature,  in  the  cleanest  capital,  of  the  cleanest 
commonwealth,  of  the  cleanest  union,  on  the  cleanest 
continent  of  the  cleanest  planet  in  the  universe." 
[Applause  and  laughter.]     (P.  8.) 

The  Church  in  the  United  States  (meaning  by 
that,  all  the  churches)  may  be  regarded  as  an  ex- 
pert in  higher  education,  however  unable  she  may  be 
to  take  care  of  the  primary  schools.     (P.  8.) 

The  cause  of  higher  education  would  go  forward 
in  the  United  States  if  no  State  appropriations  were 
ever  again  made  to  it.     (P.  8.) 

The  denominational   colleges  do  not   ask   of   the 

(137) 


138    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

State  appropriations  or  other  help,  but  they  do  ask 
of  the  State  that  she  will  give  them  the  protection 
of  good  government,  and  enact  no  legislation  un- 
friendly to  them.     (P.  9.) 

I  do  not  think  L.  Q.  C.  Lamar,  Associate  Justice 
of  the  United  States,  is  any  the  worse  judge  to-night 
because  on  another  night  under  the  oak  trees  of 
Emory's  campus  [in  Oxford,  Ga.],  he  found  God 
as  a  personal  Saviour,  and  thei'eafter  continued  the 
study  of  science  under  the  inspiration  of  Chris- 
tianity.    (P.  9.) 

Can  the  State,  can  anybody  in  the  State  who  real- 
ly loves  the  State,  whatever  may  be  his  theory  of 
education,  refuse  to  foster  these  religious  institu- 
tions that  do  the  work  of  higher  education  as  well 
as  any  and  cost  the  State  nothing  for  the  doing  of 
it?    (P.  10.) 

Two  theories  of  education  exist  in  the  minds  of 
men :  One  theory  is,  that  we  should  begin  at  the  top 
and  reach  downward;  the  other  theory  is,  that  we 
should  begin  at  the  bottom  and  work  upward.  The 
first  does  not  make  teachers,  but  does  create  a  ruling 
class.  For  example,  the  University  of  Virginia  has 
had  under  its  tuition  about  9,000  students,  and  it 
has  made  only  about  500  teachers.  It  has  produced 
in  that  time  about  2,000  lawyers,  but  they  won't 
teach  school.  [Laughter.]  But  if  we  work  upon 
the  common  school,  we  shall  be  able  to  lift  it  up, 
and  all  that  is  above  it.     (Pp.  11,  12.) 

Getting  an  education  is  a  good  deal  like  getting 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    139 

rich.  It  is  the  first  thousand  dollars  that  costs  the 
most  labor  and  is  the  hardest  to  get ;  after  that  the 
next  comes  easier,  and  the  next  easier  still,  and  the 
next  easier  still.  I  am  sure  of  this  by  experience,  for 
I  have  not  yet  accumulated  the  first  thousand. 
[Laughter.]     (P.  13.) 

If  you  will  give  a  boy  the  keys  that  unlock  the 
vestibule  to  education,  depend  upon  it,  if  he  is  fit 
to  approach  the  inner  shrine,  he  will  find  the  pass- 
word, grips,  and  signals  and  -secure  admission  to  the 
higher  degrees.     (P.  13.) 

Down  at  Emory  College  this  last  year  there  were 
fifty  young  men  working  their  way  through  college. 
While  I  speak  to-night  they  are  all  about  in  Georgia 
working  to  make  their  expenses  for  the  next  term ; 
and  I  have  thought  that  if  the  angels  who  watched 
over  the  slumbering  Jacob  that  first  night  from 
home  have  not  lost  their  sympathy  for  struggling 
boys  they  are  nearer  to-night  to  those  fifty  boys, 
and  others  like  them  in  Georgia,  than  to  any  other 
people  between  Tybee  and  Rabun  Gaji.  [Great  ap- 
plause.]    (P.  13.) 

The  Indians  have  a  legend  that  is  not  altogether 
a  legend ;  it  is  also  a  parable.  It  is  to  the  effect  that 
a  warrior  slain  by  another  imparts  his  strength  in 
death  to  the  hand  that  overcame  him.  It  is  so  with 
a  young  man  struggling  for  higher  education.  His 
difficulties  help  him ;  they  give  him  education  which 
books  cannot  give.  They  give  him  education  of 
strength  and  courage  and  independence  which  can  be 


140    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

acquired  in  no  other  way  than  by  struggling  and 
conquering.     (P.  13.) 

If  we  ever  have  higher  education  in  any  great  de- 
gree, it  must  be  by  helping  primary  education. 
(P.  14.) 

Schools  for  country  children  must  be  at  their 
doors.  One  must  be  in  each  militia  district,  and  on 
"this  side  of  the  creek"  to  all  of  them.  If  on  the 
other  side,  they  will  never  get  across.  [Laughter.] 
(P.  15.) 

Building  up  the  common  schools  is  the  shortest 
route  to  higher  education  in  Georgia.  The  common 
schools  will  feed  the  high  schools,  and  the  high  schools 
will  feed  the  colleges.     (P.  16.) 

If  we  shall  rob  the  children  of  their  chance  to  se- 
cure an  education,  we  shall  have  done  them  an  irrep- 
arable injury,  one  such  as  the  summer  would  suf- 
fer in  the  blight  of  the  spring.    (P.  17.) 

I  think  we  are  less  alarmed  in  the  United  States 
when  we  ruin  a  crop  of  children  than  when  we  lose 
a  crop  of  cotton  or  barley.     (P.  17.) 

We  must  not  waste  children  [by  neglecting  their 
education].  At  last,  this  world  is  made  for  people, 
and  not  people  for  this  world.  God  did  not  put  us 
down  here  to  keep  things  from  being  lonesome,  but 
he  made  things  for  us,  and  the  cattle  on  a  thou- 
sand hills  and  our  harvest  fields  and  our  railroads 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    141 

are  absolutely  nothing  until  we  have  turned  them 
into  blessings  to  our  children.     (P.  17.) 

There  is  no  way  to  "financier"  a  Church  college 
Into  plenty  of  money  except  a  little  process  that 
hangs  about  six  inches  in  length,  if  your  pocket  don't 
hang  too  low.     [Laughter.]     (P.  18.) 

We  have  been  depending  [for  the  endowment  of 
our  colleges]  upon  something  else  than  giving.  We 
need  a  revolution  at  this  point;  we  need  preaching 
upon  it,  and  writing  upon  it,  and  talking  upon  it, 
and  maybe  a  little  wholesome,  good-humored  quar- 
reling upon  it.    (P.  18.) 

I  trust  that  Dr.  Nunnally  will  worry  the  Baptists 
in  behalf  of  Mercer  [University].  If  he  will  get 
after  the  Baptists  on  this  line,  we  Methodists  will 
have  peace  for  a  while.  Now  we  can't  build  a  church 
that  the  Baptists  don't  turn  a  creek  down  that  way 
and  come  bothering  us.  [Great  laughter.]  If  you 
[addressing  Dr.  Nunnally,  President  of  Mercer] 
will  annoy  and  bother  them,  they  will  do  something 
for  Mercer  and  forget  to  quarrel  with  the  Meth- 
odists. [Dr.  Nunnally:  "They  are  not  having  any 
rest."]  That  is  right.  Shake  them  up.  They  can- 
not fall  from  grace;  what  is  the  use  of  their  resting.'' 
[Tumultuous  laughter  and  applause.]     (P.  19.) 

Our  wealthy  people  sometimes  cry  "hard  times," 
but  these  are  not  hard  times.  These  are  the  best 
times  I  ever  saw,  and  I  have  seen  lots  of  times. 
[Laughter.]     (P.  19.) 


142    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

When  a  boy  has  gone  through  one  of  our  good 
training  schools,  if  he  has  pluck,  he  can  go  to  col- 
lege, and  if  he  has  no  pluck,  he  would  do  no  good 
if  he  went  through  a  thousand  colleges.  [Applause.] 
(P.  20.) 

Mr.  President,  I  am  not  so  old,  and  you  are  not  so 
far  away  from  youth,  that  we  are  free  from  its  en- 
thusiasm. Every  thought  of  the  old  State  stirs  us. 
.  .  .  I  believe  there  is  before  Georgia  a  future  as 
fair  as  the  Eden  which  lingers  as  a  golden  age  in 
the  memory  of  mankind,  cloudless  as  the  heaven 
which  fills  the  hopes  of  the  race.  [Long  and  tumul- 
tuous applause.]     (P.  21.) 

And  be  it  said  that  the  educational  institution 
exists  for  the  students,  and  not  the  students  for  the 
institution.    (P.  41.) 

In  withholding  money  from  common  schools, 
lest  the  negro  should  get  some  of  it,  we  are  in  danger 
of  perpetrating  the  folly  of  the  man  who,  in  order 
to  freeze  his  dog  to  death,  went  out  in  the  cold  and 
held  the  dog  until  he  himself  was  frozen,  while  the 
dog  survived.     (P.  43.) 

Conclusion  of  Chapter  XL,  a  letter  published  in  the  Atlanta 
Constitution,  September,  1889,  entitled  "Georgia's  Educational 
Work": 

I  am  with  good  wishes  for  the  University  [of 
Georgia]  and  all  institutions  for  higher  education 
in  the  State,  and  with  best  wishes  for  the  common 
schools.  Very  respectfully, 

W.  A.  Candler. 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    143 

Col.  H takes  to  a  small  compliment  like  little 

Jackey  Horner  did  to  a  plmn.    (P.  45.) 

"It  is  confidently  stated" :  By  whom  it  was  stated 
the  report  does  not  say ;  the  statement  was,  perhaps, 
a  bugaboo  to  enforce  the  appeal.     (P.  48.) 

Cemetery  silence  is  not  good  testimony.     Most  of 

the  men  mentioned  by  Col.  H are  now  dead  and 

cannot  define  their  position  about  the  matter  as  it 
now  stands.    (P.  49.) 

The  following  bit  of  argument  by  Col.  H one 

might  take  as  a  joke,  if  it  were  not  well  known  that 
the  Colonel  can't  tell  one.     (P.  49.) 

Men  will  often  allow  a  matter  to  go  without  op- 
position, not  because  they  approve  it,  but  because 
they  are  averse  to  controversy.     (P.  49.) 

I  submit  to  any  competent  educator  if  It  Is  good 
educational  policy  that  algebra,  trigonometry,  ana- 
lytical geometry,  and  calculus  should  all  be  thrust 
into  one  year,  and  that  year  the  Sophomore  year, 

as  Is  the  case  at  A .     This  might  be  called  the 

practice  of  taxidermy  on  Sophomores.    (P.  50.) 

Such  an  unworthy  charge  can  have  no  standing 
among  the  respectable  people  of  Georgia  until  they 
have  become  so  degraded  that  ingratitude  cannot 
disgrace  them  and  the  requital  of  generous  help  with 
scandalous  abuse  will  bring  no  blush  to  their  cheeks. 
(P.  51.) 


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Truly  we  need  denominational  colleges.  The 
State  cannot  know  religion  in  its  institutions.  That 
would  interfere  with  freedom  of  conscience.  But  in 
the  departments  of  both  physics  and  metaphysics  re- 
ligious questions  are  inevitably  raised,  and  a  State 
college  can  say  nothing  to  settle  them.  As  the  phrase 
goes  in  Arkansas,  "It  digs  up  more  snakes  than  it 
can  kill."     (P.  52.) 

Some  of  [the  alumni  of  a  certain  college]  did 
propose  to  insure  their  lives  for  it,  so  that  the  in- 
stitution might  live  if  enough  of  the  alumni  should 
die.     (P.  55.) 

Men  are  supposed  to  intend  the  consequences  of 
their  acts.     (P.  66.) 

Col,  H said :  "I  think  that  had  I  had  so  much 

doubt  as  to  the  propriety  of  anything  I  had  writ- 
ten that  it  took  the  bolstering  advice  of  three  friends 
as  to  its  propriety,  before  public  utterance,  it  would 
not  have  been  published."  Quite  likely ;  but  when 
did  Col.  H ever  doubt  the  propriety  of  any- 
thing he  ever  said  or  did,  or  anything  he  was  about 
to  do  or  say?     (P.  69.) 

False  charges  against  the  honesty  and  sincerity  of 
[the  writer's]  motives  do  not  change  the  facts  which 
he  has  set  forth,  nor  impair  the  force  of  his  plea, 
nor  disturb  his  peace  of  mind.     (P.  80.) 

It  is  of  record  that  denominational  colleges  have 
paid  good  dividends  of  intellectual  power  and  re- 
ligious usefulness.     (P.  81.) 


BRONZE  BUST  OF  BISHOP  WARREN  AKIN  CANDLER  IN  THE  ENTRY  HALL 
OF  CANDLER  SCHOOL  OF  THEOLOGY,  EMORY  UNIVERSITY. 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   145 

States  may  furnish  money  to  make  schools,  but 
they  must  come  to  the  Church  to  man  them.    (P.  82.) 

In  these  facts  [of  educational  history  by  the 
Church],  the  ignorant  religionist  who  looks  with  sus- 
picion on  learning,  the  arrogant  scientist  who  looks 
with  contempt  on  religion,  but  chiefly  the  educational 
secularist,  will  alike  find  correction  of  their  folly. 
(P.  82.) 

The  Church  cannot  abdicate  this  important  func- 
tion [of  education]  nor  renounce  the  policy  it  in- 
volves.    (P.  82.) 

There  is  hardly  an  institution  of  higher  learning 
in  the  country  that  did  not  have  its  birth  in,  and 
its  growth  from,  Christianity.     (Pp.  82,  83.) 

If  denominationalism  be  such  a  horrible  evil  as 
some  would  have  us  believe,  we  should  make  haste  to 
take  down  the  walls  of  nearly  all  our  schools  of  high- 
er grade  and  brush  the  bricks  and  stone,  for  they 
were  laid  in  denominational  mortar.     (P.  83.) 

The  ministrations  of  the  Church  in  these  holy 
things  [of  higher  education]  will  be  welcomed  by 
the  people  when  the  educational  ventures  of  the 
State  shall  have  been  discarded  as  relics  of  the  im- 
pertinent paternalism  of  a  monarchic  age.     (P.  84.) 

Under  republican  government  the  will  of  the  peo- 
ple should  be  respected,  and  when  they  indicate  a 
decided  opinion  they  commonly  have  a  reason  for  it. 
(P.  85.) 
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146    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

While  religion  does  not  always  enrich  people,  ir- 
religion  does  much  to  impoverish  them.     (P.  86.) 

Taste  and  refinement  are  very  dependent  upon  re- 
ligion for  their  production.     (P.  86.) 

Higher  education  should  be  accomplished  under 
the  most  positive  and  pronounced  religious  influ- 
ences.    (P.  86.) 

Christian  parents  cannot  afford  to  take  the  risk 
on  the  piety  of  their  children  ...  by  leaving 
the  work  of  their  higher  education  to  godless  estab- 
lishments. A  school  must  not  avoid  simply  becom- 
ing anti-Christian.  It  must  not  be  neutral — unchris- 
tian.    (P.  86.) 

State  universities  in  the  United  States  are  the 
luxury  of  the  rich  provided  by  taxation  of  the  poor. 
It  is  robbing  the  poor  to  give  advantages  to  the 
rich.    It  is  unrepublican  in  every  part.     (P.  87.) 

The  State  has  no  more  right  to  establish  colleges 
and  universities  than  it  has  to  establish  a  form  of 
religion.     (Pp.  87,  88.) 

A  State  university  which,  after  years  of  State  aid, 
is  not  strong  enough  to  survive  in  the  open  field  of 
competition  and  on  a  basis  of  its  merits  alone,  is 
not  fit  to  live — it  is  an  educational  swindle.  Other 
schools  are  living  without  this  support.  They,  too, 
can  swim  without  the  State  holding  Its  hand  under 
them  or  tying  gourds  about  their  bodies.     (P.  88.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   14)7 

State  support  has  made  educational  cossets  out  of 
our  State  universities.     (P.  89.) 

For  the  convenience  of  his  readers,  and  for  the 
confirmation  of  his  argument,  the  writer  adds  the 
most  recent  statistics.    (P.  113.) 


CHAPTER  III. 

Christus  Auctor:  A  Manual  of  Christian 
Evidences. 

Not  a  few  of  the  modern  writers  [on  Christian 
Evidences]  have  [made]  concessions  to  rationahsm 
which  [are]  scarcely  less  than  betrayals  of  the 
truth.     (P.  4.) 

At  this  present  moment  [1900  A.D.]  over  wide 
areas  of  Christendom  there  are  visible  the  character- 
istic parasites  of  a  dying  religion — mistletoe  growths, 
such  as  Mormonism,  Spiritualism,  and  Christian 
Science.     (P.  5.) 

The  gods  of  the  heathen  world  are  dead  beyond 
the  hope  of  resurrection.     (P.  6.) 

When  the  God  of  Samuel  has  been  forgotten,  the 
witch  of  Endor  will  be  resorted  to.     (P.  6.) 

When  in  riotous  rationalism  Christendom  has 
wasted  the  substance  of  a  rich  revelation  inherited 
from  ages  past,  the  prodigal  will  awake  amid  a 
famine — "a  famine  not  of  bread,  but  of  hearing  the 
words  of  the  Lord."     (  P.  6. ) 

Jesus  is  the  true  Defender  of  the  Faith.     (P.  7.) 

Jesus    is    the   refuge   of   Truth    in    this    "age    of 
doubt,"  as  he  hath  been  its  "dwelling  place  in  all 
generations."    (P.  7.) 
(148) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler  149 

The  strength  of  the  discussion  is  in  the  method 
of  its  structure,  and  not  in  the  originality  of  its 
materials.     (P.  7.) 

Christianity  is  the  only  one  of  the  religions  of  the 
earth  which  approaches  man  as  a  reasonable  being. 
(P.  11.) 

There  are  Evidences  of  Christianity,  but  no  Evi- 
dences of  Buddhism,  Brahminism,  or  Mohammedan- 
ism.    (P.  11.) 

Christianity  would  not  have  men  renounce  the  use 
of  the  God-given  faculty  of  reason  in  dealing  with 
the  highest  and  most  solemn  interest  of  life — religion. 
(P.  11.) 

A  revelation  is  given  to  impart  knowledge  which 
the  unaided  reason  is  unable  to  discover.     (P.  12.) 

In  seeking  to  ascertain  if  God  has  made  a  revela- 
tion to  man,  the  credentials  and  not  the  contents  of 
the  revelation  are  under  consideration.     (P.  12.) 

Revelation  begins  where  reason  falters  and  fails. 
(P.  12.) 

It  is  an  unreasonable  use  of  reason  to  reject  a 
revelation,  in  whole  or  in  part,  because  its  contents 
do  not  accord  with  some  a  priori  notion  of  what  it 
ought  or  ought  not  to  contain.     (P.  12.) 

To  the  contents  of  a  revelation  human  reason  may 


150    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

not  do  more  than  apply  the  general  tests  of  natural 
theology — viz.,  that  the  revelation  be  consistent  with 
itself  and  with  the  axioms  of  thought  within  which 
mental  life  and  action  are  possible  at  all;  that  it  be 
not  immoral,  but  consistent  with  the  ends  of  holiness, 
for  which  only  a  revelation  can  be  conceived  to  exist ; 
that  it  be  adapted  to  the  wants  of  man  as  a  free 
moral  agent,  not  commanding  his  obedience  without 
sufficient  evidence  that  the  command  is  from  heaven, 
nor  constraining  his  obedience  by  coercive  proofs 
that  would  leave  no  room  for  freedom  of  thought  and 
of  action.     (Pp.  13,  14.) 

The  office  of  reason  in  religion  is  to  determine  the 
following  questions,  and  these  only:  1.  Has  a  revela- 
tion come  from  God.''  2.  Where  is  it.'*  3.  What  does 
it  mean.?     (Pp.  14,  15.) 

No  sanctification,  or  ordination,  or  aggregation 
of  fallibility  can  ever  produce  infallibility.    (P.  15.) 

There  is  no  room  for  the  office  of  an  attorney  be- 
tween any  man  and  God.     (P.  15.) 

There  is  no  God ;  there  is  a  God,  but  he  has  made 
no  revelation  of  himself  to  man ;  there  is  a  God 
and  he  has  made  a  revelation  of  himself  to  man. 
These  are  all  the  hypotheses  possible  to  the  human 
mind  on  the  subject  of  God  and  a  divine  revelation. 
(P.  19.) 

In  the  benevolence  of  God  and  the  need  of  man 
lies  the  antecedent  probability  of  a  revelation.  (P. 
20.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    151 

Atheism  is  less  repugnant  to  reason  than  behef  in 
an  immoral  God,  or  in  a  God  morally  neutral.  (P. 
20.) 

To  man  is  given  the  lofty  and  dangerous  faculty  of 
free  agency.     (P.  21.) 

The  analogies  of  nature  would  lead  us  to  expect 
that  a  revelation  would  be  given  to  some  in  trust  for 
the  benefit  of  all.     (P.  22.) 

There  is  [among  men]  no  equality  of  gifts,  nat- 
ural or  supernatural.     (P.  22.) 

High  ends  of  benevolence  and  brotherhood  are 
doubtless  served  by  sending  the  greatest  blessings  to 
all  men  by  the  hands  of  some  men.     (P.  22.) 

The  means  must  be  shaped  to  accomplish,  not  to 
defeat,  its  own  end.     (P.  23.) 

A  good  God  must  not  only  give  to  his  child,  man, 
light,  but  he  must  give  the  best  light  in  the  best  way. 
(P.  23.) 

By  any  other  method  than  the  one  God  has  used, 
all  the  ends  of  revelation  would  be  defeated  by  the 
method  of  revelation.    (P.  25.) 

*'The  man  with  a  book"  is  looked  for  and  longed 
for  in  all  lands.    (P.  25.) 

None  but  a  "book  religion"  seems  to  satisfy  the 
requirements  of  man's  need.     (P.  26.) 


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Assuming  the  existence  of  a  God,  the  antecedent 
probabilities  lead  us  to  expect  that  some-where  and 
some-when  he  has  made  a  revelation  to  man,  and  that 
it  has  been  committed  to  writing.     (P.  26.) 

The  God  of  Providence  and  the  God  of  Inspira- 
tion are  not  two  Gods,  but  one,  and  we  may  be  sure 
his  Supernatural  Book  will  be  the  subject  of  his  pe- 
culiar care.    (P.  28.) 

Ourselves  and  all  things  demand  an  explanation  of 
their  being.     (P.  31.) 

Are  men  and  things  kaleidoscopic  manifestations 
of  Eternal,  Self-Existent  Matter?     (P.  32.) 

Nature  is  a  unit.  The  very  word  "universe"  implies 
this.     (P.  36.) 

An  effect  can  never  contain  an  element  not  found 
in  its  cause.     (P.  36.) 

The  hypothesis  of  a  Great  First  Cause  reduces 
the  mystery  of  existence  to  its  lowest  terms.  (P. 
37.) 

The  existence  of  life  and  mind  and  the  moral  sense 
points  unerringly  to  an  Author  who  is  himself  liv-^ 
ing,  intelligent,  and  moral.     (P.  38.) 

Men  must  respect  facts  without  regard  to  their 
own  ability  to  understand  them.     (P.  41.) 

The  divine  nature  rises  too  far  above  man's  nature 


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to  make  the  successful  simulation  of  it  an  easy  task. 
(P.  42.) 

The  unearthly  tones  of  the  divine  voice  cannot  be 
perfectly  mimicked  by  men.     (P.  42.) 

The  appearance  of  the  true  God  [in  the  flesh] 
can  neither  be  concealed  nor  counterfeited.  (P. 
42.) 

If  Jesus  be  not  God,  we  need  not  look  for  another 
[incarnation].     (P.  42.) 

Jesus's  doctrines  are  final.  They  are  the  ultimate 
truths.  It  is  not  possible  to  think  a  thought  higher 
than  his  doctrine  of  the  fatherhood  of  God,  nor 
one  wider  than  his  tenet  of  the  brotherhood  of  man, 
nor  one  deeper  than  liis  conception  of  holiness  of 
heart.  Not  one  solitary  shred  of  religious  truth  has 
been  added  to  the  world's  stock  since  the  Gospels 
were  first  published.     (P.  50.) 

Hope  cannot  dream  a  brighter  vision  than  that 
which  shines  in  the  teachings  of  Jesus  concerning 
the  resurrection  of  the  body  and  the  life  everlasting 
after  death.     (P.  50.) 

Jesus's  life  was  lived,  his  words  were  spoken,  or 
the  Gospels  are  themselves  as  great  a  miracle  as  the 
incarnation  of  God.     (P.  53.) 

The  marvels  which  the  Christian  Scriptures  record 
as  having  attended  his  birth  are  not  so  astounding 


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as  that  Jesus  of  Nazareth  should  constrain  the 
world's  date-lines  to  bend  around  his  manger-cradle. 
When  commerce  makes  entries  on  its  ledgers,  when 
governments  issue  decrees  or  publish  laws,  when  in- 
fants are  born  or  the  aged  die,  when  kings  or  peas- 
ants enter  the  world,  or  when  they  pass  to  their 
long  home — all  pay  homage  to  the  Babe  of  Bethle- 
hem.    (P.  56.) 

Ideals  are  easier  of  conception  than  of  execution. 
(P.  59.) 

The  character  of  Jesus  is  of  such  sort  that  it 
transcends  the  power  of  human  invention  to  origi- 
nate and  of  human  effort  to  actualize.     (P.  59.) 

The  unmiraculous  facts  of  Jesus's  life  become 
the  most  miraculous  if  he  be  not  God,  for  he  then 
exhibits  superhuman  purity  without  superhuman 
power.     (P.  60.) 

Under  hard  conditions  and  difficult  limitations 
Jesus  lived  a  life  of  innocence  without  weakness, 
piety  without  penitence,  uniting  in  perfect  harmony 
both  the  active  and  passive  virtues  in  such  manner 
as  they  were  never  combined  in  any  other  being 
who  has  appeared  among  men.     (P.  61.) 

There  was  in  Jesus  such  inherent  majesty  and 
about  him  such  visible  royalty  that  he  was  able  to 
assume  an  attitude  of  supremacy  toward  all  men 
and  of  equality  with  God  without  shocking  mankind. 
(P.  61.) 


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Jesus,  untaught  carpenter  from  a  despised  prov- 
ince, in  a  land  inhabited  by  a  people  held  in  vas- 
salage, set  about  organizing  a  kingdom  which  he 
proposed  should  be  universal  in  extent,  everlasting 
in  duration,  and  possess  the  quality  of  lifting  its 
citizens  to  such  an  elevation  as  that  they  might  be- 
come sons  of  God.     (P.  62.) 

In  the  shadow  of  his  cross,  Jesus  was  as  confi- 
dent of  victory  as  in  the  days  of  his  greatest  popu- 
larity.    (P.  62.) 

A  devoted  woman  anointed  Jesus  at  a  feast,  and  in 
eulogizing  her  act  he  predicted  in  one  breath  that  he 
would  soon  die,  and  that  nevertheless  his  gospel  would 
be  preached  throughout  the  whole  world,  and  the  in- 
cident told  as  "a  memorial  of  her."     (P.  62.) 

Jesus  went  about  founding  his  kingdom  as  no  man 
ever  did.  ,  .  .  He  took  the  way  of  dying.  (P. 
62.) 

Jesus  spoke  to  his  time  and  to  all  times  from  the 
standpoint  of  one  who  is  outside  and  above  all  dis- 
tinctions of  time  and  event.  His  voice  was  that  of 
love  calling  from  the  highest  heaven.     (P.  63.) 

The  spirit  in  which  Jesus  lived  and  toiled  cast  a 
halo  around  the  life  he  fulfilled  and  the  plan  he 
prosecuted.     (P.  63.) 

If  we  admit  that  in  righteousness  Jesus  is  perfect 
and  nevertheless  affirm  that  as  to  himself  he  was  de- 


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ceived,  then  the  most  royal  virtue  was  unable  to  find 
and  hold  the  truth.  Then  indeed  we  have  reached 
the  most  hopeless  agnosticism.     (P.  65.) 

If  Jesus  is  not  God,  he  is  not  good.  His  divinity 
is  the  only  rational  solution  of  the  facts  of  his  hu- 
manity.    (P.  66.) 

Men  who  laud  Jesus's  wisdom  and  goodness,  while 
denying  his  divinity  .  .  .  like  Judas  in  the  gar- 
den, seem  to  hail  him  as  Lord  while  they  betray  him 
with  a  kiss.     (P.  68.) 

When  St.  Peter  declared,  "Thou  art  the  Christ, 
the  Son  of  the  living  God,"  he  declared  the  immov- 
able conclusion  of  invincible  logic  as  well  as  the  as- 
sured belief  of  confident  faith.     (P.  68.) 

If  the  resurrection  of  Jesus  cannot  be  established 
as  a  historical  fact,  it  is  an  idle  waste  of  time  to 
either  defend  or  attack  any  other  miracles  attributed 
to  him.     (P.  71.) 

If  Jesus  did  not  rise  from  the  dead,  the  more  his 
other  miracles  seemed  to  show  him  to  be  a  super- 
human person,  the  more  confusing  and  sorrowful 
would  be  the  case  of  his  followers.     (P.  72.) 

Pitiable  beyond  all  expression  would  be  the  case 
of  the  holiest  man  falling  before  death  never  to  rise 
again ;  but  horrible  beyond  power  of  both  thought 
and  speech  would  be  the  fact  that  even  the  God  him- 
self had  succumbed  to  death!     (P.  72.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    157 

The  key  of  the  Christian  position  is  in  this  bare 
issue  of  fact,  did  Jesus  rise  from  the  dead?  (P. 
73.) 

Christianity  is  the  only  religion  the  sacred  books 
of  which  contain  epistles.  It  is  a  religion  of  facts, 
therefore,  for  letters  cannot  arise  without  persons 
and  the  facts  of  personal  history.     (P.  75,  footnote.) 

The  value  of  contemporary  letters  as  historical 
documents  in  determining  the  facts  of  any  period 
of  history  cannot  be  overestimated.  Their  allusions 
to  current  events  not  only  attest  those  events,  but 
they  help  to  a  right  understanding  of  the  signifi- 
cance of  such  happenings.     (P.  76.) 

St.  Paul  resists  his  opponents  by  appealing  to  the 
resurrection  of  Jesus  as  the  central  axiom  of  the 
faith,  so  settled  and  undeniable  that  all  dispute  must 
cease  when  it  is  reached.     (P.  78.) 

If  Christ  did  not  rise,  the  belief  of  his  early  fol- 
lowers, and  the  effect  of  the  Gospel  upon  the  world, 
are  incapable  of  explanation.  We  have  the  most 
prodigious  effects  for  which  we  can  assign  no  ade- 
quate cause.     (P.  83.) 

Falsehood  can  never  be  potent  and  beneficent. 
(P.  83.) 

The  resurrection  of  Jesus  is  more  credible  than 
that  falsehood  In  regard  to  It  was  ever  able  to  bear 
and  to  do  so  much.     (P.  83.) 


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Can  any  sane  man  believe  that  Jesus,  the  best  man 
the  world  ever  saw,  lent  himself  to  such  a  trick  [as 
deceiving  his  enemies  and  his  friends  alike  in  regard 
to  his  resurrection],  and,  from  his  place  of  liiding, 
so  inspired  faith  in  his  resurrection  that  his  disciples 
went  forth  making  such  converts  as  Saul  of  Tarsus, 
and  created  a  new  world  on  the  basis  of  a  clumsy 
piece  of  jugglery?    (P.  84.) 

The  simplicity  of  the  Gospel  was  an  offense  to  the 
Judaizers  [of  Paul's  day].  They  desired  a  more 
Jewish  God  than  Jesus.     (P.  87.) 

Those  who  attribute  the  belief  of  the  apostolic 
Church  in  Jesus's  resurrection  to  either  fraud  or 
hallucination  on  the  part  of  the  early  disciples,  must 
account  not  alone  for  the  belief,  but  for  the  Church 
founded  on  that  belief.  Here  is  not  only  a  creed, 
but  an  institution.     (P.  91.) 

The  institution  which  we  call  the  Church  rises  fair 
and  strong  out  of  the  grave  of  Jesus.     (P.  92.) 

What  great  body  of  truth  has  spiritualism  pro- 
duced analogous  to  the  doctrines  held  by  the  apos- 
tolic Church?  What  institution  has  it  created? 
What  influence  has  it  exerted  to  renew  the  world 
and  renovate  mankind?     (P.  92.)  ^ 

Christianity  is  a  fertile  and  fertilizing  faith,  re- 
newing the  earth  w^Ith  the  products  of  the  Christian 
Church  and  the  Christian  life.     (P.  93.) 

Christianity  is  not  a  vanishing  quantity,  but  a 
constantly  increasing  power.     (P.  94.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    159 

If  Christ  be  not  risen,  the  effects  of  Christianity 
are  inexplicable.     (P.  94.) 

The  lofty  characteristics  of  Christianity  arc 
themselves  effects,  and  cannot  therefore  be  the  final 
cause  of  the  religion  which  produced  them.  Mr. 
Lecky,  in  his  "History  of  European  Morals,"  mere- 
ly analyzes  the  mystery  and  catalogues  some  of  its 
parts,  and  by  subdivision  of  the  wonder  multiplies 
the  marvels  which  call  for  explanation.     (P.  96.) 

Christianity,  persistent  and  powerful,  since  a  few 
months  after  the  crucifixion,  is  the  visible  and  in- 
creasing proof  that  Jesus  has  risen.     (P.  97.) 

If  neither  the  preaching  nor  the  faith  of  Chris- 
tians has  been  vain,  it  is  because  Christ  has  risen. 
(P.  97.) 

History,  ancient  and  modern,  attests  the  resur- 
rection of  Jesus.     (P.  99.) 

If  the  First-born  of  Heaven  had  died,  never  to 
rise  again,  Egyptian  darkness  would  have  over- 
spread the  earth  never  to  lift,  and  an  inconsolable 
bereavement  would  have  made  a  lamentation  through- 
out the  universe.  But,  rising,  he  hath  brought  life 
and  immortality  to  light,  and  joy  and  hope  are  ev- 
erywhere.    (P.  104.) 

Did  a  hallucination  ever  so  stimulate  faith,  ele- 
vate virtue,  and  conquer  the  world?  The  facts  of 
the  case  admit  of  but  one  explanation:  Jesus  rose 
from  the  dead.     (P.  123.) 


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A  recent  God  is  a  pretender,  a  worn-out  God  has 
abdicated,  a  transient  God  is  a  provisional  sovereign, 
and  a  local  God  is  a  provincial  ruler.  The  true  God 
can  be  none  of  these.     (P.  127.) 

Jesus  was  the  fulfiller  of  the  past,  God  manifest 
in  the  present,  and  the  hope  of  the  future.  (P. 
131.) 

Christianity,  claiming  to  be  endowed  as  the  heir 
of  the  ages,  unembarrassed  under  the  glowing  noon- 
tide of  history,  plans  for  the  redemption  of  the 
world  by  the  forces  of  a  kingdom  which  it  declares 
shall  never  end.     (P.  134.) 

Jesus  has  shut  up  the  world,  when  the  case  eventu- 
ally reaches  its  final  issue,  to  atheism  or  faith  in 
him,  because  the  world's  history  has  no  center  nor 
purpose  if  it  is  not  organized  around  him.  (P. 
135.) 

The  Messianic  expectation  is  now  entirely  disap- 
peared from  the  pagan  world;  has  that  bright  ray 
perished  in  rayless  gloom,  or  has  it  been  lost  in  the 
dawn?    (P.  140.) 

Jesus  sent  forth  his  disciples  as  lambs  among 
wolves,  charged  with  the  superhuman  task  of  con- 
verting wolves  into  lambs.     (P.  144.) 

The  ancient  world  went  to  sleep  in  His  cradle  and 
the  modern  world  awakened  out  of  His  grave.  (P. 
145.) 


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The  Jesus  of  the  Evangelists  is  the  God  of  the 
world's  history.     (P.  148.) 

"The  Sermon  on  the  Mount" — a  discourse  which 
both  Christians  and  unbelievers  unite  with  one  voice 
in  reckoning  to  be  the  noblest  utterance  which  ever 
fell  upon  the  ears  of  man,  to  be  spoken  of  forever 
along  with  the  Ten  Commandments  of  Sinai.  (P. 
156.) 

"All  the  prophets  from  Samuel,  as  many  as  have 
spoken."  The  rising  up  of  Samuel  here  in  Peter's 
discourse  is  calculated  to  affect  the  destructive 
critics  as  the  prophet's  reappearance  In  the  cave  of 
Endor  affected  the  apostate  King  Saul,  from  whom 
"God  has  departed,"  who,  when  Samuel  spoke  to 
him,  fell  ^'straightway  all  along  on  the  earth  [i.e., 
full  length],  and  was  sore  afraid,  .  .  .  and  there 
Was  no  strength  in  him."  (1  Sam.  xxvii.  20.)  (Pp. 
164,  165.) 

He  is  higher  than  the  highest  of  the  critics  and 
truer  than  the  truest.  He  is  Christus  Auctor. 
(P.  174.) 

Were  the  Apostles  reeds  of  a  day  shaken  by 
chance  winds  of  the  spirit  and  yielding  a  verbal 
foliage,  which,  falling  and  decaying,  made  loam  to 
fertilize  narrow  areas  in  their  own  time,  or  were  they 
as  trees  planted  by  the  rivers  of  water,  striking 
their  roots  into  a  perpetual  moisture,  and  yielding 
leaves  for  the  healing  of  all  nations  in  all  lands  .^^ 
(Pp.  184,  185.) 
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The  mighty  images  of  the  Revelation  never  over- 
mastered the  spirit  of  the  Exile  of  Patmos.  (P. 
190.) 

There  is  a  divine  tone  in  the  books  of  the  New 
Testament.  Surely  it  is  none  other  than  that  of 
the  Good  Shepherd,  whose  voice  his  sheep  never  mis- 
take.    (P.  205.) 

Here,  as  we  have  the  Scriptures  before  us  and 
read  them,  we  may  think  the  thoughts  of  God  after 
him,  and  may  find  the  way  of  eternal  life  and  truth 
without  danger  of  error.  Here  is  light,  clear  and 
certain.     (P.  223.) 

The  present  is  full  of  interest  and  the  future  is 
full  of  hope.  The  living  Christ  goes  before  his 
Church.     (P.  226.) 

The  Bible  is  composed  of  sixty-six  books,  written 
by  about  thirty  different  men  residing  in  .Egypt, 
Arabia,  Palestine,  Greece,  Assyria,  and  Italy,  and 
distributed  over  fifteen  centuries.  Yet,  thus  widely 
separated  from  each  other  in  time  and  in  space,  they 
produced  a  book  of  such  unity  and  symmetry  that  it 
appears  to  be  the  work  of  one  overshadowing  Mind, 
and  to  have  but  a  single  Author.     (P.  230.) 

The  voice  of  the  Book  Is  not  the  voice  of  one  who 
interprets  nature,  but  it  is  an  unearthly  voice  speak- 
ing to  men  from  the  upper  world.     (P.  232.) 

Science  will  never  render  the  Bible  obsolete,  what- 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    163 

ever  the  discoveries  of  the  future  may  be ;  for  it  is 
not  an  exposition  of  the  natural,  but  a  revelation  of 
the  supernatural.     (P.  233.) 

When  Jesus  taught,  in  all  the  babbling  tongues 
of  earth  there  was  no  such  word  as  "philanthropy" ; 
and  "cross-bearing,"  the  loftiest  self-sacrifice,  draws 
its  name  from  the  instrument  of  his  execution.  (P. 
234.) 

The  Bible  enjoins  and  imparts  holiness  of  life, 
avoiding,  with  the  balance  and  poise  of  a  life-force, 
both  laxness  of  principle  on  one  hand,  and  asceticism 
of  conduct  on  the  other.     (P.  234.) 

The  Bible's  revelation  of  human  destiny  Is  as 
transcendent  as  Its  proclamation  of  human  duty  Is 
final.  As  there  Is  nothing  higher  than  Its  doctrine 
of  divine  fatherhood,  nothing  wider  than  its  revela- 
tion of  human  brotherhood,  nothing  purer  and 
deeper  than  its  requirements  of  personal  holiness, 
so  also  Its  doctrine  of  the  resurrection  of  the  body 
and  the  life  everlasting  after  death,  more  than  meets 
all  the  desires  implied  by  man's  brightest  hopes. 
Wherefore  since  all  its  characteristic  principles  are 
final  truths,  no  more  by  philosophy  than  by  science 
can  the  world  outgrow  It.     (Pp.  234,  235.) 

The  face  of  the  Scriptures  Is  as  tranquil  as  the 
face  of  nature,  reflecting  In  serene  depths  the  super- 
natural heights  above.     (P.  236.) 

The  possession  of  a  revelation  by  any  man  Im- 


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poses  upon  him  the  most  solemn  obligation  to  give 
it  to  others.    (P.  247.) 

In  Jesus  we  discover  that  the  heart  of  the  uni- 
verse is  not  inflexible  Power,  but  redeeming  Love. 
(P.  249.)^ 


CHAPTER  IV. 

High  Living  and  High  Lives. 

Christian  culture — without  which  I  sincerely  be- 
lieve the  higher  education  never  can  produce  the 
higher  living  so  necessary  to  the  welfare  of  our  own 
and  all  lands.     (P.  11.) 

God  bless  you  and  all  the  dear  "old  boys"  al- 
ways and  in  all  ways.     (P.  12.) 

The  world  needs  all  of  you,  but  it  can  spare  any 
of  you.     (P.  16.) 

The  nations  have  learned  war  so  well  that  they 
may  now  abandon  the  study,  and  proceed  to  the 
higher  branches  of  human  endeavor.     (P.  19.) 

Money-making  may  easily  extract  every  heroic 
element  from  the  motives  of  our  people.     (P.  21.) 

The  tools  of  scholarship  should  be  like  Jonathan's 
rod  at  Beth-aven,  enlighteners  of  their  own  eyes  and 
instruments  of  deliverance  for  the  people.     (P.  22.) 

Solomon  was  seven  years  building  the  temple  of 
the  Lord  and  thirteen  in  building  his  own  house. 
This  fact  the  sacred  historian  has  recorded  and  it 
is  not  to  the  credit  of  Israel's  wisest  king.     (P.  23.) 

For  an  unparalleled  opportunity  God  has  given  to 
us  unprecedented  wealth.     (P.  24.) 

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In  this  day  of  luxury  ask  for  no  more  than  daily 
bread  until  the  kingdom  of  God  has  come  and  his 
will  be  done  on  earth  as  in  heaven.     (P.  25.) 

The  worst  infidelity — a  skepticism  which  despairs 
of  virtue  because  it  despises  righteousness.     (P.  27.) 

Stand  unawed  for  the  right  in  the  presence  of 
wrong,  though  it  appear  never  so  powerful.  (P. 
27.) 

May  Almighty  God  bless  you  and  make  you  a 
blessing!     (P.  28.) 

Our  vocations  are  not  the  ends,  but  the  instru- 
ments of  life.  We  do  not  live  to  follow  them;  we 
follow  them  that  we  may  reach  some  ultimate  end. 
(P.  29.) 

He  who  crosses  God's  plan  invokes  defeat  upon 
his  work  and  destruction  upon  his  influence.  (P. 
30.) 

The  end  of  the  earth  is  man  and  the  purpose  of 
creation  is  spirituality.  No  othai'  end  is  worthy  of 
a  God.     (P.  31.) 

There  will  never  be  upon  the  earth  a  higher  crea- 
ture than  man  and  there  will  never  enter  the  heavens 
anything  more  noble  than  the  spirits  of  just  men 
made  perfect.     (P.  31.) 

With  the  creation  of  man  the  world's  first  Sab- 


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bath  dawned,  and  with  the  perfection  of  man  the  mil- 
lennial Sabbath's  sunshine  will  transfigure  the  planet 
we  call  his  home.    (P.  31.) 

Many  mighty  souls  in  all  ages  have  seen  the 
promise  of  a  great  spiritual  era  afar  off,  and  were 
persuaded  of  it  and  lived  for  it  and  obtained  a  good 
report  as  heroes  of  faith  in  faithless  times.  (P. 
32.) 

The  world  at  large  was  never  as  now  so  suscep- 
tible to  new  and  right  impressions.  Truth  conquers 
more  quickly  than  ever.     (P.  34.) 

The  nations  are  closer  together  than  ever  before. 
What  is  whispered  in  the  ear  at  Washington  is  pro- 
claimed within  an  hour  from  the  housetops  of 
Madrid,  and  that  which  is  spoken  in  the  closets  of 
London  is  soon  the  talk  of  the  streets  in  Peking. 
(P.  36.) 

He  who  instructs  and  inspires  his  own  people  be- 
comes the  instructor  and  teacher  of  all  mankind. 
(P.  36.) 

More  and  more  kings  and  rulers  will  have  to  con- 
sult the  people  before  going  to  war,  and  the  people 
will  more  and  more  scrutinize  the  case  which  is  laid 
before  them  in  any  proposition  for  hostilities.  What 
can  the  lord  high  captains  do  when  the  common  peo- 
ple of  all  lands,  looking  into  each  other's  eyes,  say, 
"We  be  brethren,"  and  refuse  to  obey  the  command 
to  fire?    (P.  37.) 


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It  is  a  time  for  a  new  crusade  and  a  higher  chiv- 
alry. They  of  the  red  cross  and  shield  went  forth 
to  rescue  from  the  profane  possession  of  the  infidel 
the  sepulcher  where  their  risen  Lord  had  lain ;  but 
knights  of  the  modern  time  must  go  forth  with  the 
shield  of  faith  and  the  sword  of  the  spirit  to  rescue 
their  brother  men  from  a  worse  than  pagan  sepul- 
ture— from  the  deep  dishonors  of  ignorance  and  sin. 
What  unity  of  life,  what  sublime  steadiness  of  pur- 
pose and  consistency  of  effort,  will  enlistment  in  such 
a  warfare  bring  to  you !  Into  what  holy  fellowships 
of  patriarchs,  prophets,  apostles,  and  martyrs  will 
it  introduce  you!  For  this  cause  Abel  died  and  for 
it  his  blood  yet  speaks.  Walking  with  God,  Enoch 
pursued  it  to  the  gates  of  pearl  and  within  the 
golden  city.  Seeking  it,  Abraham  sojourned  in  a 
strange  country,  dwelling  in  tabernacles  with  Isaac 
and  Jacob.  To  feed  it  Joseph  filled  the  storehouses 
of  Egypt  and  to  shield  it  wielded  wisely  the  scepter 
of  the  Pharaohs.  To  deliver  it  Moses  renounced  the 
honors  and  forsook  the  treasures  of  Egypt,  em- 
braced aforehand  the  reproach  of  Christ,  feared  not 
the  wrath  of  the  king,  and  endured  as  seeing  him  who 
is  invisible.  To  celebrate  its  triumphs  David  sang 
and  to  rebuke  its  despondency  Isaiah's  holy  lips 
were  touched  with  heavenly  fire.  For  it  the  Baptist 
preached.  For  it  Jesus  lived  and  died  and  rose  again 
and  entered  into  the  heavens  and  now  directs  with 
his  pierced  hands,  into  which  all  power  is  given,  the 
providence  which  aids  and  inspires  us  to  bear  well 
our  part  in  this  conflict  of  the  ages.     (Pp.  38,  39.) 

Heroism  undaunted  may  survive  in  a  voluptuous 


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society,  and  die  unawed  when  it  can  do  nothing  else 
but  die.     (P.  41.) 

Self-sacrifice  never  fails.  Political  power  per- 
ishes, dynasties  fall  to  rise  no  more,  laws  become 
obsolete,  and  literatures  pass  away;  but  the  influ- 
ence of  a  life  devoted  to  unselfish  service  is  as  in- 
destructible as  the  divine  love  which  inspires  it  and 
the  omnipotent  power  which  protects  it.  Though 
envy  slay  it,  as  Abel  died  hard  by  the  gates  of  Para- 
dise, from  the  ground  its  blood  shall  cry  to  heaven, 
and  in  far-off  ages  its  voice  shall  be  heard  speaking 
better  things  than  selfish  desires  ever  wished  or 
worldly  hopes  ever  dreamed.  Though  friendless,  it 
slumbers  in  a  manger-cradle,  the  stars  of  heaven 
beam  kindly  upon  it,  and  angels  of  light  sing  its 
praise.  Its  poverty  may  be  deeper  than  the  desti- 
tution of  the  unhoused  foxes  of  the  forest,  or  harder 
its  lot  than  the  want  of  the  unsheltered  birds  of  the 
air ;  but  multitudes  shall  be  fed  from  its  bounty,  and 
the  desert  place  shall  rejoice  in  its  wonder-working 
power.  Its  crown  of  thorns  shall  at  last  become  a 
diadem  of  royal  power.  Enter,  I  pray  you,  the  fel- 
lowship of  its  sufferings  that  you  may  share  the 
glory  of  its  triumph.     (Pp.  41,  42.) 

Stand  by  old  -  fashioned,  antique  righteousness. 
There  is  nothing  better  in  this  world,  and  chaos 
must  finally  come  to  order  in  obedience  to  its  author- 
ity.     (P.  48.) 

The  people  will  not  be  deceived  always.  When 
the  heaven-appointed  leader  comes  down  from  the 


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mount,  they  will  know  him  by  his  radiant  face,  and 
walking  after  him  they  will  follow  the  pillar  of  cloud 
and  of  fire,  by  which  this  nation  has  been  led  hither- 
to. Thus  led,  they  will  find  the  old  paths  and  walk 
therein.     (Pp.  49,  50.) 

The  great  principles  of  good  government  have 
been  known  in  this  country  from  the  beginning.  Do 
not  hesitate  to  walk  by  them,  nor  count  them  cheap 
because  they  seem  commonplace.  They  are  com- 
monplace because  they  are  fundamental — common- 
place like  the  sun  which  has  been  always  with  us,  and 
by  which  the  seasons  have  come  and  gone ;  spring- 
time and  harvest,  and  the  rich  rewards  of  autumn. 
(P.  50.) 

The  old  Bible  written  to  be  understood  by  com- 
mon men  and  women;  the  old  Bible  showing  plain 
people  how  to  bear  trial,  overcome  temptation,  and 
be  faithful  unto  death;  the  old  Bible  is  what  the  old 
standards  claim  for  it — "a  sufficient  rule  of  faith 
and  practice."  If  it  be  not  the  true  revelation  from 
God,  there  has  never  been  given  a  revelation.  There 
is  not  a  sin  which  it  does  not  condemn  nor  a  virtue 
which  it  does  not  commend.  Since  its  last  page  was 
written  there  has  not  been  a  moral  discover3^  Stand 
by  it  and  take  it  for  what  it  says.     (Pp.  50,  51.) 

When  the  old  Cardinal  Barromeo  was  about  to 
leave  Lodi  to  go  and  minister  to  the  sick  in  plague- 
stricken  Milan,  his  clergy  advised  him  to  remain 
where  he  was  and  wait  until  the  disease  had  exhausted 
itself.     He  answered,  "No !    A  bishop  whose  duty  it 


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is  to  give  his  life  for  his  flock  cannot  abandon  them 
in  their  time  of  peril."  "Yes,"  they  replied,  "to 
stand  by  them  is  the  higher  course."  "Well,"  he 
said,  "is  it  not  a  bishop's  duty  to  take  the  higher 
course.''"    And  he  went  to  Milan.     (P.  52.) 

A  true  man  is  called  to  a  state  of  war.  Go  into 
the  battle  undismayed;  do  your  best  and  trust  God. 
If  that  shall  not  bring  you  success,  it  will  bring  you 
a  high  life  more  sublime  even  in  defeat  than  all  the 
victories  of  ignoble  greatness.     (P.  52.) 

It  is  ours  to  subject  sectional  passion  to  the 
authority  of  a  benevolent  patriotism  which  concerns 
itself  for  the  welfare  of  the  whole  country.  (P. 
54.) 

The  chiefest  characteristic  of  the  founders  of 
this  great  republic  was  their  faith  in  God  and  their 
reverence  for  the  authority  of  the  Bible.  They 
never  doubted  for  one  moment  that  the  Bible  was 
the  Word  of  God.     (P.  55.) 

The  worshipers  of  Mammon  abound  in  prudential 
virtues  and  are  deficient  in  the  virtues  which  impel 
one  to  self-abandon  in  the  defense  of  right.  (P. 
61.) 

There  are  more  Church  members  in  the  South 
than  among  the  same  number  of  people  in  other 
lands,  and  their  faith  is  the  simplest,  purest,  and 
best.  Moreover,  the  type  of  their  piety  is  evan- 
gelical, not  rationalistic.     Religious  isms  and  quib- 


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bles  have  never  flourished  among  our  people.  The 
Christian  Sabbath  is  sacredly  regarded  and  the  Old 
Book  is  implicitly  believed.  Our  people  not  only  be- 
lieve that  the  Bible  contains  the  word  of  God,  but 
that  it  is  in  truth  the  word  of  God.     (P.  62.) 

The  home,  sweet  emblem  of  the  paradise  lost  and 
and  symbol  of  the  heaven  to  come.     (P.  62.) 

We  cannot  have  an  enduring  republic  without  an 
abiding  Christianity,  accepting  the  authority  of  the 
inspired  Book  and  walking  in  the  ordinances  of  the 
living  God.     (P.  64.) 

The  alternatives  of  thought  are  an  infallible 
Church,  an  infallible  Book,  or  Agnosticism.  There 
can  be  no  other.     (P.  65.) 

Stand,  I  beseech  you,  for  God's  word  f^nd  the 
Lord's  day  as  pillars  of  our  government  and  sup- 
ports of  our  civilization.     (P.  65.) 

America  is  the  hope  of  mankind ;  and  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  purity,  piety,  and  patriotism  of  the 
founders  of  the  republic  is  the  hope  of  America. 
(P.  68.) 

Many  persons  of  shallow  thought  and  vehement 
vanity  never  weary  of  exalting  the  things  of  the 
present  at  the  expense  of  all  that  has  been  done  be- 
fore us.  With  the  American  "innocent  abroad" 
they  weep  at  the  graves  of  patriarchs  and  prophets, 
because  those  belated  barbarians  never  lived  to  see 
them.     (Pp.  69,  70.) 


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To  what  divine  heights  of  usefulness  human  na- 
ture can  rise  when  touched  by  a  noble  sentiment. 
(P.  74.) 

Pain  has  been  the  price  paid  for  all  the  permanent 
good  among  men.     (P.  75.) 

It  is  not  said,  "Other  men  have  labored  and  ye 
may  enter  into  rest,"  but  "Ye  are  entered  into  their 
labors."  Because  they  have  labored  you  must  toil ; 
because  they  have  suffered  you  must  endure.  (P. 
76.) 

Your  times  are  as  holy  as  any  times,  and  there  are 
yet  deeds  to  be  done  by  men  as  great  as  any  wliich 
have  been  done.  Yea,  and  greater  works  await 
achievement,  because  the  Son  has  gone  unto  the  Fa- 
ther, and  in  the  affluence  of  his  enthroned  omnipo- 
tence replenishes  with  increasing  potency  the  ener- 
gies of  his  servants.  Let  us  respect  ourselves  as 
sons  of  God,  and  magnify  our  work.     (P.  77.) 

Cast  forth  your  lives  into  the  ever-living  universe 
and  God  will  see  to  it  that  they  do  not  perish.  He 
who  would  not  allow  waste  of  the  bread  and  fishes 
which  he  could  multiply  at  will,  will  never  permit 
one  particle  of  truth  or  germ  of  goodness  to  be  lost, 
let  him  who  puts  it  forth  be  never  so  obscure  and 
humble.     (P.  79.) 

You  will  in  process  of  time  finish  your  course, 
but  not  your  work.  None  but  Christ  could  ever 
truly  say,  "I  have  finished  the  work  Thou  gavest  me 
to  do."     (Pp.  80,  81.) 


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I  would  call  you  to  that  divine  culture  which 
walks  the  paths  of  self-sacrifice,  has  compassion  on 
the  multitude,  and  daily  goes  about  doing  good. 
(P.  86.) 

The  educational  simony  which  seeks  knowledge 
only  as  a  means  of  getting  gold  should  be  abhorred. 
God  save  you  from  "eating  your  heads  off,"  from 
cooking  your  brains,  and  frying  your  minds  with  a 
flitch  of  bacon !    (P.  89.) 

This  common-sense  world  of  ours  wisely  refuses 
to  follow  any  man  who  lives  for  himself.     (P.  90.) 

If  one  will  have  power  with  his  own  or  future 
generations,  let  him  know  that  character  goes  far- 
ther than  culture,  that  love  outlasts  knowledge. 
(P.  91.) 

Doubting  God  inevitably  leads  to  doubting  good- 
ness.    (P.  92.) 

Christian  culture  is  never  inflated  with  pride. 
Meek  and  benevolent,  it  doubts  not  God  nor  de- 
spairs of  men.  At  its  approach  the  commonest 
bushes  burn  with  celestial  fire  and  at  its  command 
the  most  hopeless  souls  arise  from  their  bondage. 
It  walks  with  its  Master  on  transfiguring  heights, 
communing  with  the  mighty  spirits  of  tlxe  past,  pro- 
posing no  tabernacles,  however,  in  which  to  linger 
there  in  selfish  ecstasy ;  but  with  radiant  face  de- 
scends to  acts  of  mercy  among  the  distressed  who 
cry  for  its  help  at  the  mountain's  base.     (P.  94.) 


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Selfish  vanity  is  the  seed  of  surliness.     (P.  99.) 

Since  they  aimed  at  the  fame  of  heroism  rather 
than  at  heroism  itself,  they  were  capable  of  only 
theatric  manhood.     (P.  101.) 

The  cowardly  human  heart  seeks  to  make  up  for 
its  own  want  of  worthiness  by  extravagant  admira- 
tion of  bygone  worthies.     (P.  102.) 

All  the  great  men  of  the  world  incarnated  the 
commonplace  principles  of  righteousness  which  pyg- 
mies and  paralytics  call  platitudes.  Their  golden 
deeds  were  the  outcome  of  that  divine  alchemy 
whereby  homely  truth  is  transmuted  into  heavenly 
character.  They  fed  themselves  and  the  multitudes 
which  followed  them  with  plain  things  like  barley 
cakes  and  fishes,  because,  fearing  God  and  loving 
men,  their  hearts  were  set  on  refreshing  the  hungry 
rather  than  on  making  a  show  of  their  wonder-work- 
ing powers,  and  because  they  knew  that  it  is  by 
these  things  mankind  lives.     (P.  104.) 

There  is  nothing  better  than  downright  right- 
eousness for  settling  matters  of  personal  and  na- 
tional duty.     (P.  105.) 

God  made  us  and  has  determined  both  the  time 
and  the  place  in  which  we  are  to  live.     (P.  105.) 

There  was  never  an  age  which  did  not  offer  the 
fullest  opportunity  for  high  service  to  any  elect 
spirit  who  was  minded  to  walk   and  work  by  thq 


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golden  rule.  One  such  man  makes  faith  in  goodness 
and  confidence  in  its  feasibility  easier  to  all  his  con- 
temporaries!    (P.  108.) 

The  man  knows  how  to  walk  alone  because  he 
has  learned  to  walk  with  God.     (P.  109.) 

What  makes  life  dreary  is  not  utter  want  of  mo- 
tive, but  lack  of  high  motives.     (P.  111.) 

Eloquence  is  but  grandiloquence  to  a  clown,  and 
a  serious,  noble  carriage  is  but  social  Pharisaism  to 
the  boorish.  Vulgarity  inverts  Peter's  vision  and 
calls  the  holiest  things  common  and  unclean.  (P. 
112.^ 

Universal  frivolity  is  the  sign  of  degeneracy  al- 
ready begun,  and  the  prophecy  of  still  further  de- 
cline.    (P.  113.) 

The  everyday  duties  of  men  and  nations  cannot 
be  discharged  in  the  absence  of  high  purposes.  Even 
our  material  civilization  is  perilously  exposed,  if  it 
be  not  garrisoned  with  high  sentiment  and  lofty 
ideals.     (P.  113.) 

Sublimity  of  character  must  come  from  sublimity 
of  purpose,  and  the  humblest  man  walking  in  the 
most  circumscribed  place  can,  and  ought  to,  live 
sublimely.     (P.  114.) 

To  the  humblest  task  the  man  of  mighty  motives 
advances  keeping  step  to  martial  music.     (P.  115.) 


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Most  men  are  appointed  to  obscure  service  in  our 
world,  but  this  does  not  mean  that  they  are  excluded 
from  participation  in  the  highest  inspirations,  or 
from  fellowship  with  the  loftiest  spirits.  (Pp.  115, 
116.) 

When  I  remember  the  precious  privacy  I  once 
had  and  the  cares  these  years  of  public  toil  have 
brought  me,  I  sometimes  feel  as  if  I  had  "once  lived 
in  heaven  and  straying  had  lost  my  way."  (P. 
117.) 

Open  your  lives  to  the  great  motives  and  you  too 
shall  be  strong  to  think,  and  to  labor — and,  best  of 
all,  strong  to  live;  for  strong  living  is  better  than 
strong  thinking  or  strong  working.     (P.  118.) 

The  life  of  the  Christian  has  a  touch  of  sadness 
in  it — a  majestic  sadness  like  that  which  rests  upon 
the  face  of  a  homesick  pilgrim  sojourning  in  a  for- 
eign land.     (P.  119.) 

The  source  and  strength  of  all  high  motives  you 
will  find  in  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  who  from 
the  Nazareth  home  to  Calvary's  cross  showed  to 
men  a  life  of  self-sacrifice,  always  "about  the  Fa- 
ther's business."     (P.  119.) 

Dreary,  dreary,  who  can  say  how  dreary  and  mo- 
tiveless is  the  life  bounded  by  time  and  sense!  (P. 
120.) 

God  is  still  alive.     Never  was  his  presence  more 
manifest  nor  his  purposes  more  clearly  revealed  in 
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the  ongoing  of  events  than  at  the  present  time. 
The  plan  of  the  ages  seems  bending  toward  its  cul- 
mination. That  "far-off  divine  event  to  which  the 
whole  creation  moves"  seems  drawing  nigh.  Epoch- 
al events  follow  rapidly  upon  each  other.  Lines 
of  benevolence  penetrate  further  the  regions  of  hu- 
man want,  and  the  shadows  are  lifting  off  all  lands. 
"It  is  daybreak  everywhere."     (P.  121.) 

Throw  open  your  hearts  to  the  incoming  of  the 
great  motives,  and  you  shall  feel  your  souls  refreshed 
as  with  the  dewy  tonic  of  the  breath  of  the  morning. 
(P.  121.) 

The  heaven  of  heavens  is  not  filled  with  idle  min- 
strels, but  ministering  spirits,  active  in  errands  of 
mercy.     (P.  123.) 

Education,  if  good  and  wholesome,  really  multi- 
plies the  power  of  a  man  to  toil  effectively.  (P. 
124.) 

Idleness  destroys  happiness,  corrodes  the  mental 
powers,  and  corrupts  the  moral  nature.     (P.  124.)  • 

No  man  can  do  the  highest  work  if  he  is  only 
capable  of  the  lowest ;  but  many  men  waste  them- 
selves in  doing  lower  work  than  God  designed  for 
them.     (P.  126.) 

The  public  service  is  robbed  of  the  best  intelli- 
gence that  culture  may  at  private  shrines  burn  in- 
cense to  itself,  or  pharisaically  thank  God  that  it  is 
not  as  other  men.     (P.  127.) 


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You  are  bound  to  seek  until  you  have  found  the 
highest  work  of  which  you  are  capable,  and  then  to 
do  that  work  with  all  your  might.     (P.  127.) 

The  worth  of  a  man  consists  not  in  the  elevation 
of  the  place  he  occupies,  but  rather  in  filling  well 
the  liighest  place  of  which  he  is  capable.     (P.  127.) 

"The  choice  of  a  profession"  is  a  phrase  of  god- 
lessness  pointing  to  a  life  of  selfishness  and  a  death 
of  shame.  You  are  called  to  some  work,  higher  or 
lower,  I  know  not  what  or  where.  As  you  love  life 
and  fear  God,  find  it,  but  do  not  try  to  choose.  Our 
first  great  duty  is  to  find  the  work  in  which  we  can 
be  the  most.  A  man  can  only  do  his  best  in  that 
work  in  which  he  can  be  his  best.  His  life  and  his 
labor  must  be  of  one  piece,  as  seamless  as  the  Sav- 
iour's robe.     (Pp.  129,  130.) 

How  glorious  is  the  beauty  of  youth  dying  for 
God  and  for  the  right  at  the  gates  of  the  morning! 
How  sacred  is  the  aged  hero,  after  years  of  faith- 
ful service,  fallen  down  dead  at  the  gates  of  the  clos- 
ing day!     (P.  134.) 

Very  profound  are  the  words  of  Jesus:  "And  ye 
shall  know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make  you 
free."  There  is  no  freedom  worthy  of  the  name 
which  is  not  freedom  by  the  truth ;  and  for  him 
who  seeks  and  finds  and  loves  and  holds  the  truth, 
there  is  neither  fear  nor  bondage  in  this  or  any 
other  world.     (P.  140.) 

There   can   be   no   worse   fall,   nor   dire  disaster, 


180    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

than  the  loss  of  faith  in  the  feasibility  of  the  truth. 
(P.  140.) 

Eloquence  is  far  more  dependent  upon  moral 
conditions  than  upon  any  other.  Eloquence  is  the 
soaring  of  the  eagle  and  not  the  fluttering  of  a 
ground  bird.     (P.  144.) 

His  prevision  was  by  the  far-seeing  eye  of  vir- 
tue's seer.     (P.  147.) 

The  people  are  good  judges  of  men.  The  masses 
do  not  long  continue  to  give  their  confidence  to  a 
man  unable,  or  unworthy,  to  serve  them.     (P.  151.) 

He  was  intellectual,  but  the  strength  of  his  mind 
was  put  forth  in  the  defense  of  well-known  truths 
rather  than  in  the  formulation  of  new  theories. 
(P.  152.) 

He  ennobled  even  the  simplest  truth  with  the 
royalty  of  his  devotion  and  the  dignity  of  his  utter- 
ance.    (P.  152.) 

The  truth  which  men  really  need  to  know  is  not 
so  difficult  of  apprehension  as  many  suppose.  We 
can  always  know  what  is  right,  and  he  is  most  wor- 
thy of  trust  to  whom  the  homeliest  virtues  seem 
most  sacred  and  heroic.      (P.  152.) 

I  think  Senator  A.  H.  Colquitt  was  a  little  proud 
of  his  poverty.  The  last  time  I  saw  him  he  told  me, 
with  evident  enjoyment,  of  the  jocose  greeting  of  a 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   181 

Western  senator,  who,  meeting  him  a  few  years  ago 
at  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  grasped  his  hand  cordially 
and  said,  "I  love  to  shake  the  hands  of  you  old- 
fashioned  Southern  senators.  You  are  poor  as 
church  mice  and  honest  as  the  noonday."  I  trust  it 
is  not  improper  to  say,  I  wish  we  may  be  always 
delivered  from  too  thrifty  statesmen.     (P.  156.) 

When  the  inspired  tinker  of  Bedford  jail  watched 
home  his  Christian  soldier  and  saw  him  witliin  the 
gates  of  pearl  with  them  who  walk  in  white,  he  said 
with  a  sob  that  cries  even  in  the  printed  page — the 
sigh  of  the  homesick — "which  when  I  saw  I  wished 
I  were  among  them."    (P.  158.) 

The  force  of  a  life  may  be  measured  by  the  ob- 
stacles which  it  overcomes.     (P.  161.) 

He  was  a  self-made  man,  as  every  man  worth  the 
making  always  is.  Be  it  understood,  when  I  say  he 
was  self-made,  I  mean  that  he  made  a  man — not  that 
he  won  a  place.     (P.  162.) 

When  charlatans  seem  to  succeed  and  demagogues 
parade  in  purple,  the  moral  currency  of  the  realm 
is  debased  and  all  ethical  values  are  confused.  If,  at 
such  a  time,  a  man  of  genuine  merit  appears,  com- 
pelling, by  the  purity  of  his  life  and  the  excellency 
of  his  attainments,  the  recognition  of  his  people, 
his  very  presence  purifies  the  atmosphere  and  makes 
the  earth  wholesome  again.     (P.  163.) 

We  have  been  fed,  not  by  our  bakers  and  butlers 
of  commerce,  but  by  our  Josephs  interpreting  to 


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us  our  dreams  and  driving  gaunt  famine  from  our 
doors  by  the  penetration  of  their  judgments  and 
the  foresight  of  their  visions.     (P.  165.) 

Every  man's  task  is  easier  because  he  went  before 
us.     (P.  166.) 

The  pulpit  was  his  throne.  He  was  no  posturer 
nor  phrase-maker.  He  was  no  novelty  monger.  He 
dealt  in  the  staple  doctrines  of  the  gospel ;  he  was 
no  peddler  of  homiletic  notions.  With  calmness  and 
humility  of  manner  he  announced  his  text  and  pro- 
ceeded to  expound  it  in  the  plainest  and  simplest 
English.  There  was  no  effort  at  display  nor  strain- 
ing after  effects ;  but  as  he  proceeded  his  mind  be- 
gan to  glow  and  his  words  to  burn.  Doctrines  were 
fused  to  a  white  heat ;  light  and  warmth  were  com- 
municated to  the  hearts  of  his  hearers ;  saints  were 
comforted ;  sinners  were  convicted ;  penitents  were 
converted;  the  Holy  Ghost  fell  upon  all;  the  people 
met  the  Lord,  and  going  away  said,  "Behold  how 
our  hearts  burned  within  us  as  he  talked  with  us  by 
the  way."     (P.  167.) 

I  cannot  wish  him  back,  though  grievous  is  our 
loss.  I  know  what  learning  has  left  us,  and  what 
saintliness ;  what  patience  and  what  faith  have  faded 
from  our  sight.  I  know  what  gentleness  as  a  hus- 
band, and  what  tenderness  as  a  father,  have  been 
taken  away.  I  know  what  generous  friendship  has 
closed  its  eyes  to  beam  kindly  upon  us  no  more  un- 
til the  earth  and  sea  shall  give  up  their  dead.  I 
know  what  means  this  seal  of  silence  resting  upon 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    183 

the  lips  of  our  Chrjsostom.  But  grievous  as  is  our 
loss,  I  would  not  call  him  back  to  the  sorrow  which 
had  become  the  habit  of  his  heart,  to  wasting  dis- 
ease, to  pitiful,  unavailing  struggle  with  decay.  (P. 
169.) 

The  Union  created  by  the  Constitution  was  not 
the  obese  absorber  of  the  rights  of  the  States  that 
composed  it,  but  the  lithe  and  potent  defender  of 
them.     (P.  174.) 

They  [the  South]  resorted  to  the  argument  of 
force  because  the  party  which  had  seized  the  govern- 
ment declared  it  would  no  longer  yield  to  force  of 
argument.     (P.  175.) 

He  who  would  trample  on  a  State  maims  the 
Union ;  he  who  would  dim  the  light  of  one  of  the 
stars  would  diminish  the  glory  of  the  whole  constel- 
lation.    (Pp.  177,  178.) 

Our  country  is  filling  to  overflowing  with  men  of 
various  races,  divers  tongues,  and  conflicting  tradi- 
tions. If  at  last  they  shall  all  be  fused  into  one 
homogeneous,  harmonious  Americanism,  all  will  be 
well.  Otherwise  they  will  pull  down  the  very  refuge 
of  liberty  in  which  they  have  taken  shelter.  (P. 
179.) 

Partisans  mistake  the  blaze  of  hate  for  the  glow 
of  patriotism.     (P.  181.) 

Self-sacrifice  never  fails ;  heroism  is  never  in  vain ; 


184    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  AJcin  Candler 

heaven  and  earth  may  pass  away,  but  heroes  live 
forever.     (P.  184.) 

The  common  people  of  Christendom  have  too 
much  education  to  be  content  with  less.  They  will 
demand  and  receive  more.     (P.  188.) 

Education  may  be  a  Pandora's  box  from  which, 
curiosity  having  opened,  all  blessings  have  irrevo- 
cably escaped,  hope  alone  being  left  to  men ;  but 
the  deed  is  done,  and,  truth  to  speak,  the  masses  of 
men  do  not  regret  the  opening  of  the  box,  whatever 
may  be  the  results.  Men  do  not  care  to  live  in  a 
paradise  if  it  is  to  be  a  "Paradise  of  Fools."  (P. 
189.) 

A  poultice  of  ignorance  will  not  draw  out  the 
dangerous  inflammations  which  afflict  and  imperil 
the  social  system,  even  if  the  patient  were  disposed 
to  submit  to  its  application.  Thel  cure  will  be 
found,  if  found  at  all,  in  Christian  culture.  (P. 
190.) 

Are  men  of  the  world  willing  to  put  more  money 
into  their  unbeliefs  than  Christian  men  are  willing 
to  put  into  their  behefs?     (P.  192.) 

No  Church  in  America  undertakes  to  get  along 
without  its  own  colleges,  except  a  Cuckoo  sect 
which  accomplishes  the  same  end  by  occupying,  as 
far  as  it  is  able,  institutions  originally  founded  by 
other  Churches.     (P.  192.) 

Unchristian  education  means  ruin  to  both  Church 
and  State.     (P.  195.) 


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The  schools  of  the  Church  must  be  able  to  offer 
educational  opportunities  as  good  as  the  best  to 
the  children  of  the  Church.  Christian  culture  must 
not  be  identified  with  meager  instruments  of  instruc- 
tion and  a  low  grade  of  scholarship.  It  must  rep- 
resent the  highest  as  well  as  the  purest  learning. 
Otherwise  it  will  provoke  only  contempt,  and  will 
degrade  the  Christianity  whose  name  it  bears.  (P. 
196.) 

All  the  schools  of  the  Church  must  be  in  fact,  as 
in  name,  genuinely  Christian.  For  a  school  to  wear 
the  garb  of  the  Church  that  it  may  secure  the  gifts 
of  the  consecrated  is  a  species  of  simony  far  worse 
than  all  sins  of  secularism.  The  times  call  for 
Christian  culture,  not  ecclesiastical  establishments. 
(P,  197.) 

The  great  common-school  system  can  be  saved 
from  secularism  b}'  pouring  through  all  its  veins 
and  arteries  the  religious  influences  of  our  Christian 
colleges,  if  we  will  only  make  these  colleges  strong 
enough  to  educate  most  of  the  teachers  of  the  com- 
mon schools.  Christian  men  have  it  in  their  power 
(in  their  purses)  to  make  our  colleges  thus  strong. 
The  young  life  of  the  republic  to-day  lies  in  the  lap 
of  the  Church.  Will  she  dare  say  to  any  secular 
agent  whatsoever,  "Take  this  child  and  nurse  it  for 
me?"  It  is  this  the  Lord  says  to  her.  It  is  a  high 
trust.  It  cannot  be  delegated  to  another  without 
disobedience  to  her  King.     (P.  198.) 

War,  that  fell  destroyer  and  archdemon  of  evil. 
(P.  199.) 


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Notliing  will  answer  for  this  great  work  but  cold 
cash  and  warm  consecration.     (P.  202.) 

Saul  was  a  king  of  inches,  but  one  who  does  a 
deed  of  benevolence  like  this  [founding  a  Christian 
college],  the  completion  of  which  we  witness,  is  ev- 
ery inch  a  king.     (P.  204.) 

The  Church  of  God  never  dies.  States  rise  and 
fall ;  policies  based  on  the  popular  will  fluctuate 
with  the  caprice  of  the  masses,  personal  and  private 
enterprises  perish  with  their  projectors,  but  the 
Church  of  God  goes  on  forever!     (P.  205.) 

As  I  see  it,  the  Church  must  control  with  her 
authority  and  permeate  with  her  influence  the  higher 
education  of  this  great  nation,  or  irreligion  will  be- 
come the  mark  of  intelligence  and  ignorance  the 
badge  of  piety  among  the  people.  If  this  should 
ever  be  the  case,  godlessness  would  become  the  fash- 
ion, holiness  the  jest  of  the  people,  and  modish  vice 
would  laugh  obsolete  virtue  out  of  countenance. 
(P.  207.) 

The  South  is  the  home  of  the  purest  American- 
ism to  be  found  in  the  Union.  Here  evangelical 
piety  rests  with  implicit  faith  in  the  teachings  of 
the  old  Bible,  and  on  Sabbaths,  still  kept  sacred 
with  old-fashioned  reverence,  it  worships  the  God  of 
the  fathers  of  the  Republic.     (P.  214.) 

Large  collections  of  books  are  at  once  the  deposi- 
tories and  the  generators  of  learning  and  literature. 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   187 

They  create  the  taste  and  supply  the  tools  for  liter- 
ary effort  in  every  department  of  thought.  (P. 
216.) 

A  few  rich  men,  amid  the  comforts  of  wealth, 
have  still  maintained  that  poverty  of  spirit  which 
secures  entrance  to  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  (P. 
218.) 

The  State  of  Massachusetts,  with  400,000  more 
inhabitants  than  Georgia,  has  a  school  population 
of  130,000  less  than  Georgia.  (The  children  of 
Georgia  do  not  get  old  as  fast  as  the  children  of 
Massachusetts,  or  else  the  Georgians  have  more 
children.  Boston  culture  seems  not  to  bring  the 
blessing  pronounced  upon  him  "who  hath  liis  quiver 
full  of  them.")     (P.  223.) 

Teachers  do  not  cost  as  much  as  soldiers  nor  as 
much  as  policemen.  Schoolhouses  cost  less  than  sa- 
loons;  education  costs  less  than  ignorance.  (P. 
230.) 

Our  rural  people  are  really  a  sad  people.  Wit- 
ness the  songs  that  they  sing.  If  a  hymn  is  an- 
nounced at  a  country  church,  though  its  sentiment 
may  be  never  so  joyful,  it  is  almost  invariably  sung 
to  a  sorrowful  tune.  Melancholy  airs  express  the 
melancholy  spirit  of  a  people  made  sad  by  living 
too  much  alone.  And  thus  solitariness  impairs  their 
productive  power — hinders  industry — and  stupe- 
fies Invention.  How  different  all  would  be  if  a  rich 
village  life  should  take  the  place  of  the  present  so- 


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I 

cial  leanness  among  our  country  people !  With  a 
brave,  strong  people  dwelling  in  farm  villages,  sur- 
rounded by  the  cheerful  scenes  of  a  thrifty  agricul- 
ture ;  their  children  learning  in  well-kept  schools ; 
their  homes  free  from  fears  of  rude  assault,  their 
churches  glorified  by  simple  faith  and  vocal  with 
joyous  songs;  their  social  life  sweet  and  pure:  this 
Southern  land  of  ours  would  become  beautiful  as 
the  garden  of  the  Lord — the  very  gate  of  heaven. 
(Pp.  238,  239.) 


CHAPTER  V. 

Great  Revivals  and  the  Geeat  Republic. 

A  revivalistic  religion — the  prevalent  form  of 
Christianity  in  American  churches — is  at  once  the 
salvation  of  our  own  country  and  the  hope  of  other 
lands.     (P.  3.) 

The  forms  and  forces  of  national  life  take  their 
rise  in  the  religion  of  the  people.     (P.  7.) 

Atheism  breeds  anarchy  as  like  begets  like.  (P. 
10.) 

The  power  of  political  institutions  is  in  direct 
proportion  to  the  purity  of  the  Christianity  with 
which  they  coexist.     (P.  11.) 

The  call  of  Abraham  and  his  departure  from 
Chaldea,  and  the  Exodus  from  Egypt,  while  attend- 
ed by  more  miraculous  circumstances,  were  no  more 
tinily  religious  events  than  the  founding  of  the 
American  Colonies.     (P.  16.) 

The  Reformation  itself  was  strictly  speaking  a 
revival.  It  is  a  great  mistake  to  consider  that 
mighty  revolution  to  have  been  only  a  change  of 
speculative  tenets,  or  a  secular  struggle,  under  the 
pretense  of  religion,  for  freedom  of  thought  only. 
The  correspondence  of  the  Reformers,  especially 
that  of  Luther  and  Calvin,  shows  that  much  of  their 

(189) 


190    Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 

time   was    spent   giving   counsel    to   inquiring   souls 
and  leading  such  souls  to  Christ.     (Pp.  28,  29.) 

Renewed  spiritual  life  is  the  basis  of  a  nobler  so- 
cial life  and  the  foundation  of  a  higher  political  en- 
deavor.    (P.  35.) 

In  seeking  to  make  religious  commonwealths,  citi- 
zenship had  been  by  the  founders  conditioned  on 
Church  membership ;  and  as  is  always  and  inevitably 
the  result  of  such  methods,  citizenship  had  not  been 
elevated  to  a  nobler  level,  but  Church  membership 
had  been  degraded  to  the  low  plane  of  a  political  ex- 
pedient.    (P.  41.) 

Robes  and  rituals  had  come  to  be  of  small  im- 
portance to  this  man  whose  fervent  soul  was  fixed 
on  the  great  essentials  of  that  life  which  is  by  the 
living  Spirit.  Unpersuasive  dogmas,  without  prac- 
tical value  in  inducing  men  to  come  to  Christ,  were 
also  reckoned  as  of  secondary  importance.  (P. 
65.) 

George  Whitefield's  doctrines  of  evangelical  and 
experimental  Christianity  as  opposed  to  sacramen- 
tarianism  and  formalism  in  religion,  mightily  con- 
tributed to  the  development  of  the  spirit  of  freedom. 
A  man  who,  without  the  intervention  of  priestly  ab- 
solution or  sacramentarian  ceremony,  feels  that  he 
is  justified  by  faith  and  born  of  the  Spirit,  receiv- 
ing directly  from  God  the  assurance  of  his  deliver- 
ance from  the  guilt  and  power  of  sin,  inevitably  con- 
ceives that  he  must  be  free.     Priestcraft  in  religion 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    191 

and  absolutism  in  government  go  naturally  togeth- 
er; but  where  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  is,  there  is 
liberty,  even  political  liberty  in  the  end.  Puritan 
experience  of  that  liberty,  wherewith  Christ  makes 
men  free,  destroyed  absolutism  in  England,  and  the 
same  spirit,  aroused  and  invigorated  by  the  revival 
under  Whitefield's  ministry,  prepared  the  way  in  no 
small  degree  for  constitutional  freedom  in  the  United 
States.  And  this  spirit  of  liberty,  it  should  be  ob- 
served, differs  from  that  mad  frenzy  that  made  and 
marred  the  French  Revolution,  by  so  much  as  it  is 
purged  from  the  dross  of  selfishness  and  the  virus 
of  vindictiveness,  by  the  fervent  love  with  which  it 
coexists  in  the  divinely  renewed  heart.  One  who 
is  a  son  of  God  by  the  adoption  of  the  new  birth 
not  only  conceives  respect  for  his  manhood,  but 
reverence  for  the  rights  of  all  other  men.  (Pp.  76, 
77.) 

The  revival  which  resulted  from  Whitefield's  min- 
istry fused  the  discordant  elements  of  the  hetero- 
geneous peoples  of  the  Colonies  into  one  family  of 
God.  Thus  the  Colonists,  who,  being  mainly  of 
British  ancestry,  had  some  bond  of  unity  by  birth, 
came  to  have  a  far  nobler  and  more  effective  kinship 
by  the  new  birth.     (P.  77.) 

A  newly  kindled  fire  will  smoke  most  inconvenient- 
ly and  uncomfortably  at  the  first ;  but  if  we  seek  to 
get  rid  of  the  smoke  by  pouring  cold  water  on  the 
smoldering  flame,  we  only  make  the  matter  worse. 
It  is  far  better  to  help  the  fire  to  burn  itself  into  a 
clear,  smokeless  flame.     (Pp.  79,  80.) 


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Revivalism  is  the  characteristic  American  way  of 
building  up  the  Churches.  It  is  essentially  a 
preaching  type;  its  chief  reliance  is  the  gospel 
"preached  with  the  Holy  Ghost  sent  down  from 
heaven."  It  expects  supernatural  results  from  the 
Word,  and  it  is  not  disappointed.  It  has  resulted 
in  the  highest  type  of  civilization  and  the  purest 
form  of  Christianity  on  the  planet.  It  can  afford 
to  endure  with  patience  the  jeers  of  the  unthinking 
and  unconverted.     (P.  85.) 

American  Christianity  is  the  Philip  among  the 
national  evangelists,  for  more  Africans  have  been 
brought  to  Clirist  by  the  American  churches — espe- 
cially by  those  laboring  in  the  Southern  States — 
than  by  all  the  other  churches  of  the  world  com- 
bined.    (P.  90.) 

Ritualistic  Christianity  may  be  able  to  get  on 
without  producing  or  requiring  for  its  propagation 
men  of  learning.  Evangelistic  Christianity  comes 
preaching,  and  both  makes  and  needs  the  learning 
it  inspires.     (P.  90.) 

The  greatness  of  any  people  Is  exactly  measured 
by  the  amount  of  moral  force  that  is  generated 
among  them.     (P.  92.) 

The  Wesleyan  Revival  came  with  a  burst  of  song 
such  as  had  not  been  heard  for  ages.  In  this  par- 
ticular it  marked  a  new  era  in  Christian  history. 
The  revival  made  the  hymns,  and  the  hymns  in  turn 
deepened   and   widened   the   revival.      The   music   of 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    193 

the  evangelical  Churches  henceforth  passed  out  of 
the  land  of  privileged  classes  called  choirs,  and  all 
the  people  fell  to  singing  with  rapturous  melodies 
the  praise  of  God.  Priestcraft  and  choral  monopo- 
lies belong  to  the  same  order  of  things,  and  the  fur- 
ther Christianity  gets  away  from  both,  the  further 
it  is  from  paganism,  and  the  closer  it  is  to  the  com- 
mon people  and  to  the  favor  of  the  life-giving  Spir- 
it.    (Pp.  110,  111.) 

The  common  people  fight  the  world's  battles. 
(P.  118.) 

Watt  transformed  the  steam  engine  from  a  toy 
to  a  Titan,  which  in  the  end  revolutionized  the  in- 
dustrial world.     (P.  123.) 

History  shows  a  high  disregard  of  the  calendar, 
and  vital  movements  go  on  without  much  reference 
to  dates.     (P.  147.) 

A  dainty,  formal,  and  ritualistic  Christianity  is 
a  poultice  of  rose  leaves  applied  to  the  bitten  in 
order  to  extract  and  overcome  the  virus  of  asps. 
(P.  158.) 

An  effeminate  preacher  of  the  academic  sort  in 
the  present  day,  sitting  down  to  analyze  such  a 
work  [as  the  Great  Revival  of  1800],  is  as  incapable 
of  comprehending  it  as  the  dainty  dandies  of  the 
days  of  Rehoboam  would  have  been  unable  to  under- 
stand the  marvelous  achievement  of  Gideon's  three 
hundred.  (Pp.  162,  163.) 
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The  revival  of  1800  opened  the  liidden  fountains 
of  benevolence,  and  not  only  were  the  local  churches 
sustained,  but  organized  charities  of  far-reaching 
benevolence  were  founded,  and  there  was  thus  in- 
augurated an  era  of  princely  giving,  unprecedented 
for  generosity  in  the  annals  of  nations.     (P.  181.) 

The  Church — the  Bride  of  the  Lamb — finds  in 
the  providence  of  the  Bridegroom,  and  in  the  devo- 
tion of  her  children  of  faith,  a  more  generous  and 
reliable  support  than  the  coffers  of  kings  contain 
or  the  treasuries  of  states  will  supply.     (P.  182.) 

When  the  rediscovery  of  evangelical  Christianity 
had  reached  its  climax  in  Wesley's  preaching  of  a 
universal  atonement,  the  witness  of  the  Spirit,  and 
Christian  perfection,  there  was  nothing  of  the  long- 
lost  treasure  left  to  be  exhumed.  All  that  was  re- 
quired was  the  faithful  preaching  of  the  fully  recov- 
ered gospel  to  every  creature.     (P.  190.) 

Since  Christianity  is  a  religion  of  experience,  this 
lay-element  was  a  power  in  the  Apostolic  Church, 
of  whom  was  St.  Stephen  and  St.  Luke.  But  it 
dropped  out  of  the  Church  when  Christianity,  ceas- 
ing to  be  an  experience,  was  only  practised  as  a 
pompous  system  of  priestcraft  or  taught  as  an  ab- 
struse philosophy  of  religion.     (P.  200.)  ^ 

When  men  come  to  know  what  are  the  essential 
truths  of  Christianity,  and  to  realize  these  truths 
in  personal  experience,  strife  about  nonessentials 
perishes  as  if  scorched  by  the  breath  of  the  Al- 
mighty.    (P.  200.) 


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Saving  faith  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  is  the 
hope  of  the  nation  for  the  years  to  come  as  it  has 
been  its  deliverance  in  all  the  perilous  crises  in  its 
past  history.     (P.  206.) 

Like  all  the  great  revivalists,  from  Luther  to  the 
present  time,  Moody  was  intensely  Biblical.  (P. 
24^2.) 

Liberalism  has  never  produced  a  revival  of  re- 
ligion, nor  does  it  promise  to  do  so  at  any  early 
day.     (P.  242.) 

Moody  answered  tne  oft-repeated  question,  how 
to  reach  the  masses,  by  his  crisp  saying,  "Go  for 
them."     (P.  244.) 

Moody's  maxim,  "Go  for  them,"  is  but  the  rough 
Western  translation  of  the  words  of  Jesus,  "Go  into 
all  the  world  and  preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature." 
It  is  another  form  of  John  Wesley's  enthusiastic 
declaration,  "The  world  is  my  parish,"  and  it  is  the 
antithesis  of  that  effeminate,  timid,  and  exclusive 
Christianity  that  selfishly  dreams  that  its  parish  is 
the  whole  world.     (P.  246.) 

This  unifying  of  the  English-speaking  race  had 
more  than  a  sentimental  value  in  the  Spanish- 
American  war,  and  it  is  not  improbable  that  it  will 
have  a  still  more  conspicuous  place  among  the  in- 
strumentalities of  Providence  for  the  redemption  of 
the  nations  in  the  years  at  hand.  [Astonishingly 
seen  in  the  World  War. — Editor.]     (P.  247.) 


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The  perils  of  nations  are  not  without,  but  with- 
in, themseh'es,  and  they  are  always  moral  perils. 
No  nation  was  ever  destroyed  by  the  murderous  at- 
tacks of  its  enemies ;  all  that  have  gone  down  fell,  as 
suicides  die,  by  their  own  hands.    (P.  254.) 

Neither  time  nor  place  forestalls  the  operation  of 
fundamental  principles.     (P.  258.) 

Capital  and  Labor  will  dwell  together  as  broth- 
ers as  soon  as  they  really  are  brothers,  and  that 
will  be  when  they  are  born  again.     (P.  258.) 

Christian  communion  does  not  say,  "We  shall 
have  all  things  equal  by  my  taking  from  thee  what 
is  thine,"  but  which  generously  declares,  "We  shall 
have  all  things  equal  by  my  giving  to  thee  what  is 
mine."  Against  such  socialism  there  is  no  law,  for 
love  is  the  fulfilling  of  all  law.     (P.  259.) 

Ritualism  and  rationalism  can  do  nothing  for  the 
foreigner  in  the  city ;  all  that  sort  of  influence  has 
been  tried  on  him  in  the  Old  World  to  no  purpose. 
(P.  259.) 

Let  the  Romanists  come  on  to  America;  their 
coming  will  save  the  trouble  and  expense  of  sending 
the  gospel  to  the  lands  where  they  live  in  poverty, 
ignorance,  and  national  decadence.  We  can  handle 
the  hosts  of  Romanism  better  here  than  in  Papal 
lands.  Evangelical  Christianity  has  reached  and 
saved  millions  of  them  already.     (P.  261.) 


CHAPTER  VI. 

Wesley  and  His  Work;  ob,  Methodism  and 
Missions. 

The  unity  of  spirit  which  prevails  among  the 
followers  of  Wesley  in  Great  Britain  and  in  the 
United  States  penetrates  to  the  very  center  of  na- 
tional life  on  both  sides  of  the  sea.  Our  nations 
have  a  oneness  in  Christ  Jesus  which  Methodism 
has  done  most  to  create  and  maintain.  Because  of 
this  spirit  of  unity  between  English  and  American 
Methodists  they  triumph  and  rejoice,  suffer  and 
sorrow  together.     (Pp.  12,  13.) 

The  evangelical  note  sounds  high  and  clear 
through  all  the  divisions  of  our  widely  extended 
connection.  The  living  Christ  is  vividly  realized  in 
the  hearts  and  lives  of  our  ministry  and  member- 
ship, and  his  presence  is  the  inspiration  of  their  ef- 
forts and  the  assurance  of  their  hopes.  They  are 
in  no  wise  perturbed  by  anxieties  concerning  "new 
theologies";  for  the  foundation  of  their  faith  is  not 
in  metaphysical  abstractions  that  becloud  the  mind 
and  distract  the  soul,  but  in  evangelical  experiences 
as  clarifying  to  the  intellect  as  they  are  cleansing 
to  the  heart.  Their  energies  are  not  diverted  to 
picturesque  schemes  of  social  reform  or  to  secular 
agitations  separated  from  the  Gospel  of  Christ. 
(P.  17.) 

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The  Anglo-Saxon  nations  and  Methodism  have 
risen  to  power  together,  and  the  fact  is  not  a  mean- 
ingless coincidence.  The  potential  and  uplifting  in- 
fluence of  Wesley's  work  has  been  a  most  influential 
force  in  raising  to  their  present  height  the  English- 
speaking  nations.     (P.  20.) 

The  same  overruling  and  divine  hand  reserved 
North  America  for  the  home  of  British  colonist, 
and  by  so  small  a  thing  as  a  flight  of  birds  led 
away  to  the  south  Columbus  and  the  men  of  the 
Latin  nations  who  followed  after  him.     (P.  21.) 

Nothing  can  be  of  greater  importance  to  the 
world  than  that  the  Anglo-Saxon  nations  shall  dwell 
together  in  unity  and  work  harmoniously  for  the 
redemption  of  mankind.  Alienations  between  them 
would  be  the  worst  of  misfortunes,  and  war  between 
them  would  be  an  immeasurable  calamity  and  an  un- 
speakable crime.  Providence  has  accumulated  pow- 
er in  their  pacific  hands  to  the  end  that  they  may  be 
at  peace  among  themselves  and  be  enabled  to  en- 
join gently  but  firmly  peace  upon  others.     (P.  25.) 

Without  sectarian  pride  or  denominational  boast- 
fulness  we  may  surely  claim  that  Methodism,  which 
has  been  so  identified  with  their  rise,  is  one  of  the 
strongest  strands  in  this  religious  bond  by  wliich 
these  two  powerful  nations,  Great  Britain  and  the 
United  States,  must  be  held  together.     (P.  28.) 

The  Wesleyan  revival  in  England  and  the  "great 
awakening"   in    America,   which    under    Whitefield's 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    199 

preaching  was  carried  from  a  local  influence  to  a 
continental  visitation,  saved  to  the  Anglo-Saxon  na- 
tions their  evangelical  Christianity  and  their  racial 
solidarity.     (Pp.  29,  30.) 

Three  great  facts  stand  out  clear  and  conspicu- 
ous in  the  history  of  the  eighteenth  century — name- 
ly, the  rise  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  nations,  the  rise  of 
Methodism,  and  the  rise  of  the  great  modern  mis- 
sionary movement.  And  John  Wesley  might  say 
of  all  of  them:  Quorum  'pars  magna  fui.  (Pp.  33, 
34.) 

The  last  campaign  for  the  conversion  of  the  world 
is  now  on.  It  is  in  the  hands  of  the  evangelical 
Churches  of  Northern  Europe  and  North  America, 
with  the  forces  of  the  English-speaking  nations 
leading  the  advance  and  Methodism  at  the  head  of 
the  column.     (P.  35.) 

I  do  not  believe  that  the  faith  "once  for  all  de- 
livered to  the  saints,"  as  it  has  reached  us  through 
our  Wesleyan  fathers,  can  ever  fail.  The  doctrines 
of  repentance,  faith,  justification,  regeneration,  and 
the  witness  of  the  Spirit  are  ultimate  truths  which 
can  never  be  outgrown.  The  joyous  experience 
which  springs  from  their  sincere  and  hearty  accept- 
ance falls  but  little  short  of  heavenly  bliss — "Christ 
in  us,  the  hope  of  glory."     (P.  36.) 

When  Paul  was  stricken  down  on  the  Damascus 
road,  the  paganism  of  the  first  century  began  to 
totter  to  its  fall;  and  when  in  the  meeting  of  the 


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Moravians  in  Aldersgate  Street,  while  "one  read 
from  the  preface  of  Luther's  commentary  on  the 
Romans,"  John  Wesley  felt  his  heart  strangely 
warmed,  the  springtime  of  a  new  religious  life  in 
the  English-speaking  world  began.     (Pp.  47,  48.) 

It  is  ever  the  way  of  the  mightiest  men  and  the 
noblest  benefactors  of  the  race  that,  like  Abraham, 
the  father  of  the  faithful,  they  rise  at  the  call  of 
God  and  go  out,  knowing  not  whither.     (P.  49.) 

The  greatness  sprung  of  such  a  spirit  escapes  on 
the  one  hand  the  weakness  of  a  cowardly  conserv- 
atism, and  on  the  other  the  waywardness  of  a  revo- 
lutionary radicalism.  While  contending  earnestly 
for  the  ancient  faith  once  for  all  delivered  to  the 
saints,  it  is  quickly  responsive  to  the  Providence 
which  preserves  the  truth,  and  is  tenderly  sensitive 
to  the  Spirit  who  continues  ever  to  reveal  more  and 
more  clearly  the  deep  things  of  God.     (P.  50.) 

Wesley  built  more  wisely  than  he  knew,  because 
he  was  ever  ready  to  build  not  according  to  his  own 
preconceived  notions,  but  according  to  the  plans  of 
God  concerning  him.  And  this  submission  to  the 
divine  will  lifted  him  above  the  fretful  impatience 
of  worldly  ambition  and  the  feverish  anxieties  of 
earthly  greed  into  a  serene  atmosphere  of  imper- 
turbable peace,  where  neither  domestic  calamity,  nor 
public  scorn,  nor  persecution,  nor  poverty  could 
reach  him  to  disquiet  his  spirit  or  diminish  his  la- 
bors.    (Pp.  53,  54.) 

Wesley's  devotion  to  holiness  made  him  the  de- 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   201 

fender  of  the  ancient  faith;  for  he  knew  that  truth 
is  to  the  intellect  what  righteousness  is  to  the  will, 
that  waywardness  in  doctrine  ends  generally  in 
wickedness  of  life,  however  some  minds  of  excep- 
tional nature  may  escape  the  moral  consequences  of 
their  erratic  theorizings.  With  St.  Paul  he  was 
convinced  that  evil  communications  doctrinally  cor- 
rupt good  manners  morally.     (P.  66.) 

The  Wesleyan  revival  saved  the  English-speak- 
ing nations  from  revolution,  doubt,  and  despair, 
and  gave  them  to  be  what  they  are  to-day — the 
evangelistic  nations  of  the  world,  in  which  is  fixed 
most  firmly  that  faith  by  which  all  the  families  of 
the  earth  are  to  be  blessed.     (P.  77.) 

In  the  conquest  of  the  world  for  Christ  walled 
cities  of  opposition  must  be  pulled  down,  not  with 
the  mellifluous  notes  of  the  silver  trumpets  of  dainty 
academics,  but  by  the  rude  blast  of  rams'  horns 
blown  by  men  bearing  the  ark  of  God  and  relying 
upon  the  strength  of  the  divine  army  of  victory 
over  all  their  foes.     (P.  85.) 

It  is  not  a  new  religion  that  we  need,  but  a  revival 
of  the  old  religion — the  religion  of  Wesley,  the  re- 
ligion of  the  reformers,  the  religion  of  the  martyrs, 
the  religion  of  "the  glorious  company  of  the  apos- 
tles."   (P.  86.) 

And  first  let  it  be  premised  that  the  purpose  of 
God  is  always  a  moral  pui*pose,  and  that  therefore 
the  chiefs  of  the  race  who  most  deeply  and  endur- 
ingly  affect  it  are  religious  leaders.     (P.  92.) 


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The  antagonisms  of  classes  are  cleansed  and 
cured  when  the  wise  and  the  wealthy  come  with 
peasants  and  shepherds  to  open  their  treasure  and 
adore  their  God  at  the  Child  of  Bethlehem's  feet. 
(P.  97.) 

Peter  and  Paul  and  the  rest  of  the  apostles  have 
at  least  the  advantage  over  the  critics  that  they 
agree  with  each  other  and  held  to  the  same  theory 
touching  the  Hebrew  Scriptures  throughout  the  en- 
tire length  of  their  lives.     (P.  111.) 

He  has  a  right  to  rule  the  nations,  because  he  can 
give  new  life  to  nations.  By  force  men  can  subject 
nations  to  their  wills,  but  only  Jesus  can  regenerate 
nations.  Alexander  conquered  men ;  so  did  Caesar 
and  so  did  Bonaparte.  But  only  Jesus,  the  risen 
Lord,  can  convert  men.  Therefore  he  only  has  a 
right  to  reign,  for  he  only  can  create  a  patriarchy. 
(P.  118.) 

Common  origin  does  not  give  brotherhood.  If  it 
M^ere  so,  we  should  be  brothers  to  the  trees  and 
brothers  to  the  lower  animals,  for  God  created  them 
and  us.  But  are  we  akin  to  them?  He  made  the 
wild  ass  and  the  wild  ass'  colt,  but  will  you  acknowl- 
edge fraternal  relations  with  that  family?  Father- 
hood and  brotherhood,  I  repeat,  do  not  rest  on  a 
common  creation;  they  rest  in  kinship.     (P.  122.) 

The  biologist  may  trouble  me  a  good  deal  about 
the  unity  of  the  race,  and  bring  to  me  many  per- 
plexing problems ;  but  Christianity  solves  all  these 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   203 

perplexities  in  the  universal  redemption  which 
Christ  Jesus  has  provided  for  all  mankind.  (P. 
122.), 

The  time  has  come  when  the  earth  must  be  all 
pagan  or  all  Christian.  The  world  must  be  bound 
together  in  one  as  the  patriarchy  of  Jesus  Christ 
or  rolled  together  in  a  bundle  of  infinite  confusion 
and  strife.  Paganism,  with  its  diseases  and  deg- 
radations, will  corrupt  mankind,  or  Christendom, 
with  its  health-giving  and  life-saving  Gospel,  must 
redeem  mankind.     (P.  124.) 

Let  any  opponent  of  foreign  missions,  who  yet 
claims  to  be  a  Christian,  understand  once  for  all 
that  by  his  opposition  to  this  high  and  holy  cause 
he  is  guilty  of  treason  and  forfeits  his  rights  in 
the  kingdom.  I  mince  no  words  about  this  matter. 
I  have  no  right  to  deal  with  it  gently.  My  Lord 
rebukes  it.  Opposition  to  missions  is  inhuman  to- 
ward men  and  insurrectionary  toward  God.  (P. 
125.) 

But  some  may  ask  of  me:  "Have  I  not  a  right  to 
my  opinion?"  I  answer:  Certainly;  but  a  right  to 
an  opinion  is  one  thing,  and  a  right  opinion  is  an- 
other and  a  very  different  thing.     (P.  126.) 

I  am  not  going,  on  the  invitation  of  a  lot  of  senti- 
mentalists, to  sit  down  with  an  assembly  of  Bud- 
dhists and  Confucianists  and  Mohammedans,  and 
God  knows  what  else,  to  confer  about  how  to  save 
this  world.     That  question  is  not  open  for  debate 


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with  them.  We  have  no  compromise  to  offer  them 
nor  conference  to  enter  into  with  them.  There  is 
not  standing  room  enough  in  the  world  for  two  re- 
Hgions.  Christianity  is  engaged  in  a  war  of  ex- 
termination. It  will  have  no  rival,  and  it  will  not 
consent  that  the  dominions  of  its  Lord  shall  be  par- 
celed out  among  a  lot  of  religious  satrapies  and 
superstitious  viceroys.     (P.  127.) 

The  brewers  of  Chicago  and  St.  Louis  have  spent 
more  money  since  the  Spanish-American  War  in 
putting  beer  into  Cuba  than  all  the  Churches  of 
America  have  ever  spent  in  establishing  Christian 
sobriety  there.  When  Livingstone  was  supposed  to 
be  lost  in  Africa  (although  he  did  not  feel  very 
lost),  vast  sums  were  spent  to  find  him;  but  when 
all  Africa  was  lost,  and  had  been  for  centuries,  some 
wise  ones  thought  it  fanatical  extravagance  to  make 
an  effort  to  redeem  the  kidnaped  children  of  God 
in  the  Dark  Continent.     (P.  128.) 

Some  of  you  have  been  talking  of  "building  em- 
pires," and  the  phrase  may  have  a  legitimate  use. 
But  in  the  last  analysis  we  are  not  building  empires ; 
we  are  extending  the  one  universal  kingdom  of  Jesus 
Christ.     (P.  129.) 

But  no  merely  clerical  Christianity  nor  juvenile 
Christianity  nor  effeminate  Christianity  can  meet 
the  opportunity  which  confronts  the  Church  in 
these  momentous  times.  Our  day  of  opportunity 
calls  loudly  for  a  vigorous,  virile,  manful  Christian- 
ity.    (P.  i32.) 


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In  the  first  place,  the  nations  in  which  evangelical 
Christianity  is  the  prevalent  faith  have  the  wealth 
of  the  world  in  their  possession.  They  have  the 
material  resources  required  for  the  religious  con- 
quest of  the  earth.     (P.  144.) 

Is  it  an  accident  that  these  vast  accumulations, 
this  enormous  stored  power,  have  been  given  by 
Providence  to  these  nations  in  which  evangelical 
Christianity  most  prevails?  Has  not  this  unparal- 
leled wealth  been  given  to  these  mighty  peoples  to 
equip  them  to  meet  an  unprecedented  opportunity.'' 
Have  they  not  been  enriched  in  purse  that  they 
may  have  the  resources  by  which  to  enrich  all  man- 
kind in  piety?  Are  they  not  two  great  armies 
which  the  Captain  of  our  salvation  has  victualed 
for  a  world-wide  campaign  to  rescue  from  death  an 
imperiled  world?     (P.  145.) 

Ritualism  is  a  local  thing,  and  cannot  proceed 
far  in  any  direction  without  traveling  beyond  the 
area  in  which  it  is  impressive  and  reaching  a  point 
where  It  is  only  grotesque  and  curious.  It  yields 
quickly  to  superstition,  even  when  it  maintains  Its 
purest  forms.  Rationalism  is  a  restless  and  tran- 
sient thing,  forever  learning  and  never  able  to  come 
to  the  knowledge  of  that  truth  which  truly  reveals 
the  unchanging  God  and  authoritatively  commands 
the  adhesion  of  mankind  with  its  unchanging  wants 
and  ancient  woes.  But  evangelical  Christianity, 
with  Its  doctrines  of  experimental  religion.  Is  at 
home  in  all  lands  and  powerful  in  all  times.  It  can 
never  be  local  or  transient,  for  It  ministers  to  the 


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universal  wants  of  man  and  speaks  eternal  truths. 
(Pp.  145,  146.) 

I  hope  I  shall  not  be  accused  of  bigotry  if  I  say 
that,  of  all  forms  of  evangelical  Christianity,  Meth- 
odism is  best  adapted  to  this  great  work.  Not  in  a 
narrow  sectarianism,  but  in  honest  sincerity  I  ven- 
ture to  affirm  so.  I  am  very  catholic  in  my  senti- 
ments. I  have  to  be.  I  have  one  brother  who  is  a 
Baptist,  another  who  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  another 
who  is  a  Methodist.  So  you  see  catholicity  of  spirit 
is  a  household  necessity  with  me.     (P.  148.) 

There  is  a  great  difference  between  a  called  min- 
istry and  a  sent  ministry.  Nineveh  would  have  been 
a  long  time  calling  Jonah,  and  Jonah  would  have 
been  a  long  time  accepting  such  a  call,  if  the  people 
of  Nineveh  had  sent  it  to  him.  The  prophet  was 
greatly  needed  in  that  wicked  city,  but  he  was  not 
wanted.     (P.  149.) 

What  does  a  banker  think  of  Christianity  when 
he  comes  home  after  a  day's  work  in  which  he  has 
dealt  with  enterprises  involving  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  dollars  and  finds  his  Christian  wife  and 
daughter  trying  to  raise  some  missionary  money  by 
peddling  on  a  lawn  three  oysters  for  a  quarter  or  a 
tablespoonful  of  ice  cream  and  strawberries  for  fif- 
teen cents?     (P.  151.) 

If  a  man  were  to  ask  me  to  give  him  twenty-five 
cents  to  buy  a  horse,  I  would  not  do  it,  because  I 
know  that  no  such  sum  will  pay  an  appreciable  part 


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of  the  price  of  a  horse.  I  would  rather  give  him 
twenty-five  dollars  for  such  a  purpose  than  to  give 
him  twenty-five  cents.  And  many  a  business  man 
will  hear  an  appeal  for  a  hundred  dollars  for  the 
cause  of  missions  who  would  be  utterly  indifferent 
to  a  request  for  one  dollar.     (P.  152.) 

With  the  Captain  of  our  salvation  going  on  be- 
fore us,  and  with  his  blessing  resting  upon  us,  we 
may  take  this  whole  world  for  Christ ;  or,  faithless 
to  him,  forfeiting  his  favor  by  fostering  our  selfish- 
ness, we  may  lose  the  day  and  a  darkness  will  settle 
on  the  earth  that  can  never  be  lifted.  The  alter- 
natives are  plainly  before  us.  We  must  have  done 
with  selfishness  and  live  lives  of  self-sacrifice.  We 
must  have  done  with  littleness  and  lay  hold  of  great 
things.  We  must  crucify  our  lusts  and  deify  our 
Lord,  or  we  will  deify  our  lusts  and  crucify  our 
Lord.     (P.  155.) 

If  by  education,  evangelization,  civilization,  or 
by  all  combined  you  could  get  all  the  Chinese  gen- 
tlemen to  put  on  one  more  shirt  a  year,  it  would 
raise  the  price  of  cotton  not  less  than  a  cent  a 
pound.  But  that  is  a  very  low  consideration.  Mis- 
sions pay,  but  they  cannot  be  sustained  by  mercenary 
motives.     (P.  157.) 

Any  religion  that  is  willing  to  divide  the  world 
with  any  other  faith  is,  by  the  very  fact  of  its  willing- 
ness to  make  such  a  division  of  the  earth,  proved  to 
be  insincere  as  to  its  own  conviction  of  its  truth- 
fulness.    (P.  157.) 


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Wherefore  our  religion  is  necessarily,  in  a  sense, 
nobly  intolerant.  It  is  intolerant  of  all  pagan  faiths 
as  truth  is  intolerant  of  falsehood  or  as  love  is  in- 
tolerant of  lust.    (Pp.  157,  158.) 

What  is  the  meaning  of  their  strife  over  money 
except  it  be  that  each  is  mad  because  both  cannot 
get  all  of  it?  I  confess  that  I  cannot  get  up  much 
interest  on  behalf  of  either  contestant.  It  is  a  quar- 
relsome greed  that  animates  both  parties.  If  it 
were  a  contest  of  eagles,  vying  with  each  other  as 
to  wliich  could  fly  nearest  the  sun  and  hide  himself 
deepest  in  the  rays  of  that  radiant  orb,  I  could 
watch  the  contest  with  eager  interest.  But  over  a 
contest  of  vultures  as  to  which  shall  get  the  largest 
share  of  the  carrion  which  they  have  jointly  discov- 
ered, my  enthusiasm  refuses  to  rise.    (P.  178.) 

No  military  chieftain  nor  civic  hero,  crowned 
with  laurel  and  bay,  was  ever  called  to  more  honor- 
able leadership  than  that  which  is  given  to  one  who 
is  permitted  to  lead  his  people  from  ignorance  to 
enlightenment  and  from  irreligion  to  godliness. 
(Pp.  185,  186.) 

Evangelical  Christianity  aids  all  science  and  wel- 
comes all  discovery.  It  urges  reason  to  do  its  best, 
and  would  have  nature  tell  all  it  knows  to  man. 
Hence  the  age  of  the  Reformation  was  preeminently 
the  age  of  reason,  and  the  progress  of  the  faith  of 
the  reformers  everywhere  multiplies  the  achieve- 
ments of  science.     (P.  189.) 

Least  of  all  does  that  last  and,  as  we  think,  best 


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type    of   evangelical    Christianity,    Methodism,    fear 
anything  from  the  growth  of  science.     (P.  190.) 

You  can  get  a  prophet  like  Daniel  out  of  a  lion's 
den,  but  as  a  rule  dens  of  lions  are  not  the  most 
admirable  theological  seminaries.     (P.  200.) 

If  you  continue  to  build  fine  churches  and  neg- 
lect your  colleges,  you  will  find  yourselves  presently 
in  a  most  embarrassing  situation.  You  will  have 
pulpits  without  preachers  and  pews  without  con- 
gregations.    (P.  200.) 

The  culture  of  the  ministry  must  advance  with 
the  enlightenment  of  the  people,  or  else  religion 
will  be  identified  with  ignorance  and  irreligion  with 
education;  in  which  case  modish  godlessness  will 
soon  laugh  obsolete  piety  out  of  countenance.  Our 
ministry  must  be  improved  as  well  as  increased. 
(Pp.  200,  201.) 

Thus,  while  multiplying  the  Isaiahs  of  King  Uz- 
ziah's  times,  tliese  rationalists  decrease  the  prophets 
of  our  own  times.     (P.  303.) 

Having  lost  faith  in  the  supernatural  power  of 
the  Spirit,  they  say  nothing  of  the  new  birth,  but 
declaim  much  about  "salvation  by  character." 
"Character-building"  indeed !  Spiritual  character, 
like  all  vital  things,  is  not  a  matter  of  building,  but 
a  matter  of  birth.  One  of  these  dainty  parsonettes 
could  not  build  a  butterfly,  even  if  he  had  all  the 
parts  furnished  to  hand ;  much  less  can  he  construct 
14 


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by  liis  mechanical  processes  the  character  of  a  child 
of  God!  And  these  clerical  mechanics  make  much 
of  "decision  days"  and  decry  old-fashioned  revivals. 
For  my  part,  I  would  not  give  one  good  meeting  of 
old-time  Methodists  under  a  brush  arbor,  where  sin- 
ners are  called  to  repentance  and  penitent  souls  are 
led  to  Christ,  for  all  the  pretty  performances  of  all 
your  so-called  decision  days.     (P.  203.) 

The  men  we  need  are  men  who  hold  decision  days 
like  that  of  Elijah  on  Carmel,  or  that  of  Peter  at 
Pentecost.       (P.  203.) 

A  man  who  comes  to  a  city  church  without  the 
spirit  of  self-sacrifice,  feeling  that  he  must  hold  his 
place  at  all  cost,  will  fall  inevitably  into  compro- 
mises and  concessions  to  the  spirit  of  worldliness 
which  will  dishonor  God  and  damage  the  cause  of 
Christ.  No  man  is  fit  to  come  to  town  who  does  not 
feel  that  he  can  afford  to  return  to  the  country 
rather  than  bend  the  knee  to  the  urban  Baals.  (Pp. 
204,  205.) 

But  a  ministry  dependent  upon  dainties  and  dis- 
contented with  cross-bearings  can  never  win  vic- 
tories over  the  world,  the  flesh,  and  the  devil.  (P. 
205.) 

No  man  is  under  obligation  to  preach  until  he 
has  found  truth  worth  preaching.  As  long  as  one 
is  no  more  than  a  "seeker  after  truth"  he  has  only 
a  call  to  silence  and  no  call  to  preach.     (P.  207.) 

All  the  great  religious  movements  by  which  na- 


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tions  have  been  rescued  from  revolution  and  saved 
from  ruin  have  been  led  by  men  who  went  back  to 
the  faith  of  their  fathers.     (P.  208.) 

Nor  is  the  debt  which  secular  enterprises  owe 
Christianity  the  less  because  it  is  overlooked  and 
unacknowledged.  Little  knew  or  cared  the  cities  of 
the  plain  for  Abraham's  intercession,  or  the  vexa- 
tion of  Lot's  righteous  soul ;  but  ten  such  persons 
in  Sodom  would  have  been  sufficient  to  have  averted 
the  fiery  flood  that  overwhelmed  them.     (P.  215.) 

The  preeminent  peculiarity  of  Methodism  is  its 
unfaltering  assertion  of  the  doctrine  of  sanctifica- 
tion  from  sin  in  this  life.  Some  account  this  tenet 
of  Methodism  its  chief  heresy,  but  in  this  Method- 
ism rejoices  as  its  crowning  glory.  With  the 
apostle  to  the  Gentiles  it  preaches  Christ  in  the 
heart  the  hope  of  glory,  warning  every  man  in  all 
wisdom  that  it  may  present  every  man  perfect  in 
Christ  Jesus.       (P.  220.) 

A  revival  Church  Is  bound  to  be  a  singing  Church. 
The  revival  periods  of  Church  history  shed  songs 
upon  the  earth  as  August  and  November  bring 
meteoric  showers.     (P.  221.) 

A  rellglonless  nation  cannot  stand,  and  the 
American  people  have  no  other  religion  to  which  to 
turn  If  they  should  renounce  Christianity.  The 
Mohammedan  peoples  may  become  Christians ;  the 
Buddhist  nations  may  turn  to  Christ ;  but  If  a 
Christian    nation    renounces    Christianity,    there    is 


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nothing  but  godlessness  to  which  it  can  turn ;  and 
that  means  ruin,  for  to  be  without  God  is  to  be 
without  hope  in  the  world. 

David  had  his  Nathan  and  Ahab  had  his  Elijah; 
but  Solomon  had  no  prophet — and  never  did  an 
Israelitish  king  need  a  prophet  as  sorely  as  did  he. 
On  Mount  Moriah  there  was  a  plentiful  supply  of 
priests,  painfully  performing  a  pompous  ritual, 
burning  with  infinite  precision  "the  fat  and  the  two 
kidneys,"  but  never  rebuking  the  sins  of  the  court 
or  calling  th'e  nation  to  repentance. 

Our  city  Churches  are  very  mucK  addicted  to 
picking  preachers,  but  they  are  not  remarkable  for 
producing  them. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

Practical  Studies  in  the  Fourth  Gospel, 
Vol.  I. 

"What  think  ye  of  Christ?"  is  the  supreme  ques- 
tion in  Christianity.  False  views  of  him  make  his- 
tory inexplicable,  providence  insoluble,  and  salva- 
tion impossible.     (P.  4.) 

At  the  center  of  the  universe  is  a  heart  of  infinite 
love  as  well  as  an  intelligence  of  infinite  wisdom  and 
a  will  of  infinite  power.      (P.  8.) 

The  Church  can  be  the  light  of  the  world  only  as 
it  derives  light  from  Christ.     (P.  9.) 

Men  are  not  lost  for  lack  of  light,  but  for  lack  of 
love  and  obedience  to  the  light  they  have ;  and  they 
are  not  saved  by  the  abundance  of  the  light  they 
have,  but  by  the  light  they  use.     (Pp.  9,  10.) 

The  best  possession  of  the  human  soul  is  the  in- 
dweUing  God.     (P.  12.) 

Any  theory  about  Christ  which  makes  him  any- 
thing less  than  a  Saviour  utterly  fails  to  account 
adequately  for  the  fact  of  the  incarnation.  He  is 
preeminently  the  world's  Saviour  from  sin,  and  in 
saving  the  world  from  sin  he  saves  it  from  every 
other  real  evil.     (Pp.  20,  21.) 

(218) 


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Christ  is  not  willing  to  be  accepted  as  anything 
less  than  a  Saviour.  Many  nowadays  are  ready  to 
accept  him  as  the  Leader  of  all  sorts  of  social  re- 
forms, but  they  and  all  men  must  take  him  as  their 
Saviour  or  not  at  all.     (P.  21.) 

That  seeking  of  God  which  ends  in  the  finding  of 
God  in  Christ  satisfies  all  the  demands  of  reason 
and  all  the  deepest  wants  of  the  soul.     (P.  25.) 

The  soul  which  finds  not  God  fails  of  all  good. 
(P.  27.) 

We  are  nowhere  in  the  Scriptures  exhorted  to 
seek  religion  or  the  revival  of  religion,  but  we  are 
everywhere  in  the  divine  Word  urged  to  seek  God. 
We  find  religion  when  we  find  him,  and  religion  is 
revived  in  the  soul  when  the  heart's  love  for  him  is 
rekindled.     (P.  27.) 

A  seeking  soul  can  never  be  hid  from  Jesus.  (P. 
28.) 

The  culmination  of  Christ's  work  among  men  is 
to  be  in  a  bridal  scene,  and  it  was  meet  that  his  first 
miracle  should  be  at  a  marriage.     (P.  38.) 

Marriage  was  the  first  institution  ordained  by 
God,  and  it  is  the  symbol  of  "the  mystical  union 
that  is  between  Christ  and  his  Church."     (P.  39.) 

Christless  marriages  lead  to  godless  homes — and 
often  to  lawless  divorces.     (P.  40.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   215 

Christ's  work  is  a  transformation  and  trans- 
figuration of  old  things  rather  than  the  creation  of 
new  things.     (P.  41.) 

Christ  did  not  reform  the  water  by  a  process  of 
filtration ;  he  transformed  it  into  a  higher  element. 
He  changed  its  nature.  Thus  he  transforms  men 
and  society.     (P.  42.) 

At  Christ's  command  "they  filled  them  to  the 
brim" — even  as  we  should  "abound"  in  the  work  of 
the  Lord.     (P.  44.) 

No  man  can  do  Christ's  work  except  in  Christ's 
way.     (P.  44.) 

The  covetous  man  seeks  to  be  rid  of  dependence 
upon  Providence,  and  by  his  gains  to  become  a 
providence  to  himself.     (P.  48.) 

"What  sign  showest  thou  unto  us?"  What  sign 
needed  the  Sun  of  Righteousness  to  show  that  he 
was  the  Sun?     (P.  52.) 

The  heavenly  city  has  gates ;  and  gates  are  made 
to  shut  out  unfit  things  as  well  as  to  shut  in  the 
things  which  of  right  belong  there.     (P.  56.) 

Faith  sprung  from  merely  seeing  miracles  is  but 
half-belief,  involving  no  moral  act,  but  spending 
itself  in  nothing  better  than  barren  wonder.  (P. 
60.) 

A  man  who  believes  less  to-day  than  he  believed 
yesterday    is    traveling    toward    doubt    and    death; 


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but  he  who  believes  more  to-day  than  he  believed 
yesterday  is  advancing  toward  light  and  life.  (P. 
61.) 

To  obey  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  one  must  first 
know  by  faith  the  Preacher  and  Saviour  who  pro- 
claimed it  as  the  constitution  of  the  heavenly  king- 
dom.    (P.  64.) 

The  nature  of  the  new  birth  is  that  of  an  un- 
earthly life  imparted  by  the  Holy  Spirit.  It  is  not 
a  life  re-formed  out  of  the  old  elements,  but  a  life 
transformed  by  a  vital  force  imparted  to  the  soul. 
(P.  65.) 

Not  by  looking  within,  but  by  looking  above,  are 
men  saved.  It  is  not  even  faith  which  saves,  or  faith 
in  prayer;  but  faith  in  the  Saviour  revealed  to  our 
faith,  and  faith  in  the  God  who  answers  prayer. 
(P.  67.) 

To  live  truly  is  to  love  divinely.     (P.  67.) 

He  who  cannot  or  will  not  love  Christ  cannot  love 
any  one.  The  springs  of  life  are  dried  up  utterly 
and  hopelessly  in  such  a  soul.     (P.  68.) 

A  soul  winner,  being  led  of  God,  goes  where  there 
is  most  need  of  him.  "Jesus  must  needs  go  tlirough 
Samaria."     (P.  72.) 

If  we  would  reach  people,  we  must  go  in  reach, 
(P.  75.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   217 

In  the  pipings  of  many  modern  reformers  we  de- 
tect too  many  tones  of  the  voce  humana  and  too  Kt- 
tle  of  the  1^0^  Z)^«.     (P.  77.) 

The  wages  of  soul  winners  are  sure,  and  they  are 
paid  in  the  coinage  of  eternal  life.     (P.  78.) 

Because  good  men  have  labored  before  us  we 
must  work  to  save  the  fruit  of  their  labors ;  "with- 
out us"  neither  they  nor  their  work  can  be  "made 
perfect."     (P.  79.) 

What  domestic  wounds  in  Sychar  were  healed  by 
her  conversion !  The  cleansing  of  the  "red  light" 
districts  of  our  cities  would  cure  troubles  in  re- 
spectable and  fashionable  sections.     (P.  79.) 

The  conversion  of  a  soul  is  the  most  convincing 
apologetic,  and  a  revival  of  religion  like  that  in 
Sychar  of  Samaria  is  one  of  the  noblest  e^^dences 
of  Christianity.  There  is  no  refuting  the  argument 
for  his  divinity  drawn  from  the  cases  of  "twice- 
born  men"  whom  he  has  redeemed  from  degenera- 
tion and  shame  to  virtue  and  honor.     (P.  80.) 

The  true  servant  of  God  goes  not  where  men 
want  him,  but  where  God  needs  him.     (P.  84.) 

Faith  which  springs  only  from  the  seeing  of  mir- 
acles done  deifies  his  deeds,  but  fails  to  adore  his 
person ;  it  makes  more  of  what  he  does  than  of  what 
he  is;  it  wonders  rather  than  worships.  It  cares 
more  for  what  it  derives  from  him  than  for  what  it 
discerns  in  Mm,     (P.  84.) 


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How  often  have  the  sickness  and  death  of  little 
children  broken  down  the  obstinate  resistance  of 
hard  hearts  and  subdued  the  stoutest  rebels  before 
God!     (P.  87.) 

Saintliness  promoted  by  suffering  is  worth  all  the 
pain  it  costs.     (P.  88.) 

The  refusals  of  God  to  give  us  what  we  ask  are 
made  in  order  that  he  may  give  us  better  things 
than  we  ask.     (P.  89.) 

The  Jewish  rulers  had  profaned  the  sacred  place 
by  making  it  over-secular,  and  damaged  the  sacred 
day  by  making  it  over-sacred.     (P.  93.) 

« 
Men  grieve  God  to  glorify  themselves.     (P.  97.) 

The  Pharisees  were  engaged  in  manufacturing  re- 
ligion for  the  market,  and  they  therefore  resisted 
any  holy  one  who  discredited  their  trade-mark  by 
exposing  the  shoddiness  of  their  wares.     (P.  97.) 

"The  Sabbath  was  made  for  man" — not  for  the 
Jews  alone  and  only  while  the  Mosaic  system  stood, 
but  for  universal  man.  Therefore  it  is  to  be  per- 
petual in  its  duration  and  world-wide  in  its  obliga- 
tion.    (P.  99.) 

Jesus  can  seek  and  save  a  lost  soul,  but  there  is 
no  power  in  heaven  above  or  in  the  earth  beneath 
that  can  restore  a  lost  day!  God  himself  cannot 
change  history!     (P.  100.) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    219 

The  superhuman  holiness  of  Jesus  marks  him  out 
among  the  sons  of  men  as  the  Son  of  God  and  makes 
him  the  Judge  of  all  men.     (P.  108.) 

Men  do  not  reject  Jesus  for  lack  of  light,  but 
from  perverseness  of  life.     (P.  109.) 

When  Christ  is  rejected  by  men,  superstition 
reigns  over  them.  St.  Paul  wisely  warns  us  against 
the  fate  of  them  who  "turn  their  ears  from  the 
truth,  and  are  turned  unto  fables."     (P.  110.) 

A  corrupted  religion,  which  has  become  fash- 
ionable, is  a  most  dangerous  form  of  worldliness ; 
modish  piety  is  about  as  perilous  as  popular  vice — 
and  far  more  delusive.     (P.  111.) 

The  people  who  think  only  of  conforming  to  God's 
will  find  no  difficulty  in  accepting  God's  Son.  (P. 
111.) 

Jesus  did  not  chide  the  people  for  disturbing  his 
quiet  rest.  He  did  not  repel  them  for  intruding 
upon  his  "still  hour."  Submission  to  interruptions 
was  the  habit  of  his  toilsome  life.     (P.  116.) 

Even  a  boy  may  be  necessary  to  the  Lord's  great- 
est work ;  and  he  can  turn  the  youngest  and  weakest 
of  his  children  to  great  account  in  the  advancement 
of  the  kingdom.     (P.  118.) 

We  are  responsible  not  only  for  what  we  can  do 
by  natural  strength  and  means,  but  also  for  what 


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we  might  be  and  might  do  by  drawing  freely  upon 
God's  boundless  stores  of  grace.     (P.  119.) 

Our  powers  are  unfolded  in  the  midst  of  the  un- 
folding responsibilities  of  Providence.     (P.  120.) 

In  nature  and  in  grace  Jesus  is  economical.  He 
is  not  a  prodigal  Son,  but  a  provident  Saviour.  (P. 
121.) 

The  divine  deeds  of  Jesus  become  him  "as  a 
crown  becomes  a  king."     (P.  122.) 

Out  of  Temptation  into  a  Tempest.  (John  vi. 
15-21.)     (P.  125.) 

The  Lord  often  delivers  his  children  from  temp- 
tation by  sending  them  into  trial.  There  are  pre- 
venient  tribulations  as  well  as  prevenient  grace. 
(Pp.  127,  128.) 

God,  the  self-existent,  could  as  easily  die  as  de- 
sert the  soul  that  trusts  him.     (P.  130.) 

In  seeking  Christ  men  are  not  to  'put  anything 
they  get  from  him  above  what  tliey  can  find  in  him. 
There  are  many  who  see  that  life  in  Christ  brings 
social  well-being,  and  they  want  him  to  come  as  a 
social  reformer;  others  see  that  literature  and  art 
rise  and  flourish  where  his  religion  prevails,  and 
they  want  him  as  the  elevator  of  taste  and  the  em- 
bellisher of  civilization ;  others  see  the  healing  arts 
and  health  abound  where  he  is  known,  and  they  want 


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him  as  a  mere  healer  of  human  bodies.  But  he  will 
not  endure  that  any  gift  of  his  love  shall  substitute 
the  Giver ;  nor  that  any  outward  thing  shall  take 
the  place  of  the  interior  life  which  springs  alone 
from  him.     (Pp.  135,  136.) 

Anything  which  compels  belief  really  makes  belief 
unnecessary,  and  shifts  the  center  of  man's  moral 
gravity  from  the  soul  to  the  sight.     (P.  138.) 

"Man  shall  not  live  by  bread  alone,"  but  he  may 
live  by  Christ  alone.     (P.  143.) 

To  hunger  for  Christ  is  to  have  him;  to  desire 
him  is  to  find  liim.     (P.  144.) 

A  religion  which  wins  the  acceptance  of  the  world 
by  compromising  concessions  is  more  conquered 
than  conquering  in  the  midst  of  its  seeming  tri- 
umphs.    (P.  151.) 

The  heroism  of  spiritual  life  stands  firmly  by 
Jesus,  though  all  the  world  leave  him.     (P.  154.) 

A  man  may  be  the  companion  of  saints,  and  yet 
serve  the  kingdom  of  Satan.     (P.  155.) 

Slaves  of  Time  and  the  Timeless  One.  (John  vii. 
1-13.)     (P.  159.) 

Many  nowadays  presume  to  advise  about  how 
Christ's  acceptance  by  the  world  can  be  most  easily 
procured.     They  proceed  on  the  fundamental  error 


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that  it  is  a  very  good  world,  which  is  not  wrong  at 
heart  about  Jesus,  but  only  mistaken  in  its  head. 
"The  carnal  mind  is  enmity  against  God."  It  can- 
not be  conciliated  by  compromise;  it  must  be  con- 
quered by  the  cross.     (Pp.  164,  165.) 

Some  young  men  are  trying  the  impossible  task 
of  walking  with  the  rationalists  and  worshiping  the 
Christ.  They  are  little  better  than  theological  gyp- 
sies trying  to  tell  the  fortune  of  the  Church  by  the 
palmistry  of  academic  impostors.  Their  faith 
stands  only  in  the  wisdom  of  men,  and  hence  never 
stands  at  all,  but  moves  every  day  with  the  migra- 
tory cogitations  of  the  bookmakers.     (P.  167.) 

It  was  a  conscienceless  crowd,  confused  by  cow- 
ardice.    (P.  168.) 

One  can  afford  anything  better  than  he  can  afford 
to  live  in  moral  darkness.     (P.  168.) 

A  clean  heart  will  clarify  the  mind.     (P.  175.) 

The  mist  in  their  minds  rose  from  malice  in  their 
hearts.     (P.  178.) 

We  have  among  us  men  who,  at  the  bidding  of 
academic  scribes  and  philosophic  Sadducees,  deny 
the  Virgin  birth  of  Christ  and  accept  a  theory  of 
purely  naturalistic  origin  for  him,  and  then  vainly 
try  to  frame  a  consistent  system  to  explain  his  per- 
son and  teaching.  Th^  thing  is  Impossible.  The 
person  and  teaching  off  Christ  are  as  indivisible  as 


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Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   223 

his  seamless  robe.  If  we  reject  the  Christ  of  the 
manger,  we  must  turn  away  from  the  Teacher  on 
the  Mount.     (P.  180.) 

The  future  holds  for  us  nothing  better  than 
Christ  and  nothing  truer  than  his  doctrine.  (P. 
181.) 

Sadducees,  like  modern  rationalists,  occupied  lu- 
crative positions  in  a  spiritual  organization  while 
denying  the  existence  of  a  spiritual  world.  (P. 
186.) 

The  Pharisees  were  ritualists,  and  the  Sadducees 
were  rationalists ;  but  these  extremes  met  on  com- 
mon ground  of  opposition  to  Jesus.  And  it  is  so 
to-day ;  ritualism  and  rationalism,  materialism  and 
spiritualism,  skepticism  and  superstition  unite  to 
combat  spiritual  Christianity.     (P.  187.) 

Jesus's  love  for  sinners  and  his  wrath  against  sin 
lie  close  together  in  his  heart.     (P.  188.) 

When  Jesus's  life  ended  on  Calvary,  and  he  was 
laid  in  the  grave,  the  unbelieving  world  saw  him  no 
more;  from  it  he  hid  himself  in  the  heavens.  (P. 
190.) 

In  the  world  to  come,  as  now,  the  record  will  be: 
*'There  was  a  division  of  the  people  because  of  him." 
The  lines  of  cleavage  in  time  will  be  extended  into 
eternity.     (P.  194.) 

Men  entangled  in  worldly  positions  and  enamored 


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of  worldly  honors  feel  that  they  cannot  afford  to  be 
and  do  what  Christ  demands  of  them ;  they  are  not 
willing  to  pay  the  price  of  being  whole-hearted 
Christians.     (Pp.  200,  201.) 

The  strength  of  Christ  is  manifested  in  the  ob- 
stinate sins  in  human  hearts  which  he  has  cast  out 
and  the  mighty  men  whom  his  grace  has  conquered. 
(P.  202.) 

Jesus  shows  himself  mighty  to  save  by  the  mighty 
men  he  saves.     (P.  203.) 

To  Jesus's  cradle  came  wise  men  from  afar,  and 
laid  at  his  feet  royal  gifts  of  "gold,  and  frankin- 
cense, and  myrrh,"  and  to  his  tomb  brave  men  of 
learning  brought  myrrh  and  aloes  and  spices.  (P. 
203.) 

By  coming  to  the  Saviour  and  dealing  with  him 
directly  and  honestly,  all  doubts  and  difficulties  are 
removed.     (P.  204.) 

Their  creed  was  a  secretion  of  depraved  wills,  not 
the  outcome  of  unbiased  reason.     (P.  205.) 

They  took  the  woman  in  an  act  of  licentious  in- 
fidelity to  her  husband,  and  we  take  them  in  an  act 
of  loathsome  infidelity  to  the  God  for  whom  they 
professed  the  most  ardent  attachment.  (John  viii. 
2-11.)      (P.  212.) 

Divine  chastity  blushed  and,  embarrassed  by  the 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    225 

situation,  looked  awaj  from  the  wretched  woman 
and  her  shameless  accusers.  The  Lord  is  no  more 
pleased  now  when  novelists  and  playwrights  draw 
such  characters  before  the  public  gaze,  professing 
that  they  realistically  expose  such  indecency  in 
order  to  make  it  hateful  to  those  who  look  upon  its 
exhibition.     (Pp.  213,  214.) 

The  consciences  of  all  men  are  on  the  side  of 
Christ,  and  at  his  word  their  dormant  moral  convic- 
tions may  break  forth  in  accusing  voices  that  can- 
not be  hushed.     (P.  215.) 

We  must  accept  Jesus  Christ  as  God  or  reject 
him  altogether;  we  must  adore  him  or  stone  him. 
(P.  224.) 

God's  guidance  of  his  people  is  by  a  Person,  not 
by  a  program.  He  gave  to  Abraham  no  blue  print 
of  the  pilgrimage  to  which  he  called  him,  nor  map 
of  the  land  which  he  promised  him.  (Gen.  xii.  1.) 
Similarly  the  Christian  life  is  a  personally  con- 
ducted journey.  We  are  not  led  by  a  chart,  but  by 
Christ.  We  are  to  follow  him,  and  follow  him 
"daily"  (Luke  ix.  23).  We  cannot  tell  what  the 
future  holds  for  us ;  we  take  even  our  food  as  "daily 
bread"  direct  from  the  hand  of  our  Guide,  knowing 
full  well  that,  although  we  cannot  see  "the  distant 
scene,"  he  will  lead  us  wisely  and  safely  until  "the 
night  has  passed"  and  the  morning  breaks  upon  us 
at  home  in  the  city  of  our  God.     (Pp.  224,  225.) 

"His  Jiour  was  not  yet  come."     (John  vii.  30.) 
To  it  he  moved  like  planets,  far  beyond  the  plane 
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of  earth,  travel  sublimely  along  their  divinely  or- 
dered orbits.    (P.  229.) 

The  Father  gave  his  Son  to  save  the  world;  he 
was  not  snatched  out  of  his  Father's  hands  by  angry 
foes.     (P.  231.) 

The  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus  needs  not  for  its  suc- 
cess among  men  so  much  arguments  to  defend  it  as 
fervent  and  faithful  proclamation  to  those  who 
know  it  not.  Every  man's  conscience  is  an  ally  of 
the  gospel  of  Christ.  The  messengers  of  heaven 
make  a  great  mistake  when  they  preach  more  about 
the  gospel  than  they  preach  of  the  gospel.  (P. 
235.) 

The  essence  of  going  on  to  perfection  consists 
in  following  Christ's  teaching  to  its  uttermost  con- 
sequences.    (P.  241.) 

Opposition  to  Christ  is  alienation  from  the  good 
of  all  ages ;  malice  toward  him  is  the  murder  of  one's 
own  soul.     (P.  246.) 

He  who  is  not  a  disciple  of  Christ  is  estranged 
from  God  and  allied  with  the  devil.     (P.  246.) 

The  moral  faculties  are  never  tepid  in  their  at- 
tachments, nor  neutral  in  their  attitude;  they  take 
sides,  and  act  with  the  ardent  energies  of  the  high- 
ly heated  passions  of  love  and  hate.  They  who 
"love  the  Lord  hate  evil."    (P.  248.) 

The  moral  nature  of  mankind  takes  hold  of  spir- 
itual persons;  and  the  moral  conduct  of  men  is  in- 


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fluenced  more  by  invisible  spirits  of  evil  than  by 
their  earthly  ancestry  or  earthly  environment. 
(Eph.  vi.  12,  R.  V.)  The  chief  foes  of  goodness 
among  men  are  supramundane,     (P.  248.) 

When  the  devil  is  the  god  of  men,  they  must  in- 
evitably make  of  God  a  devil.     (P.  251.) 

There  is  no  middle  ground.  Men  must  be  follow- 
ers or  foes  of  Christ.  They  must  and  will  deify  him 
or  crucify  him.     (P.  256.) 

Perfect  love  casts  out  selfishness ;  for  fear  is  the 
child  of  selfishness.     (P.  260.) 

Christ,  the  timeless  One,  had  no  time  to  waste. 
(P.  261.) 

Faith  triumphs  not  by  arguing,  but  by  obeying. 
(P.  262.) 

An  ounce  of  experience  Is  worth  a  ton  of  theory. 
(P.  264.) 

Men  are  not  called  on  to  profess  more  faith  than 
they  have,  but  they  are  required  to  live  up  to  all 
the  faith  they  have.    (P.  264.) 

A  little  faith,  though  defenseless  among  men,  is 
far  braver  than  intrenched  skepticism.     (P.  265.) 

Men  are  not  lost  for  lack  of  truth,  but  for  love 
of  falsehood.     (P.  267.) 


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No  moral  condition  is  stationary.     (P.  267.) 

Christ  has  not  only  the  pass-key  to  the  door  of 
the  fold,  but  the  password  to  the  ears  of  the  flock. 
(P.  273.) 

"They  know  his  voice."  They  cannot  always  tell 
how  they  know  it.  Who  can  tell  how  the  voice  of  a 
father  or  a  mother  is  known.''     (P.  273.) 

Christ  made  the  cause  of  man  his  cause.  He 
came  not  as  heaven's  hireling  to  secure  fleece  and 
flesh,  but  as  earth's  servant  to  seek  and  to  save  the 
lost.     (P.  275.) 

The  same  blessed  sunlight  which  falls  upon  the 
living  body  to  give  health  and  strength  falls  on  the 
dead  carcass  to  work  corruption.  (2  Cor.  ii.  16.) 
(P.  279.) 

What  men  think  of  Christ  reveals  what  they  are 
themselves.     (P.  279.) 

There  is  a  heavenly  dialect,  a  divine  idiom  which 
a  spiritual  ear  only  can  hear  and  understand.  (P. 
288.) 

Christians  are  of  an  unearthly  type  of  being. 
Platonists,  Hegelians,  and  Spencerians  are  of  the 
earth  earthy ;  mundane  marks  certify  the  order  to 
which  they  belong.  But  Christians  are  born  from 
the  skies.  If  Christ  ceased  to  make  them,  the 
species  would  become  extinct.     No  human  skill  or 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   229 

wisdom  or  power  is  sufficient  to  produce  even  one 
Christian  life.  Christians  cannot  be  manufactured 
by  men.    (Pp.  290,  291.) 

He  laid  a  higher  claim  than  theirs  to  the  name  of 
God;  he  claimed  that  he  had  an  exclusive  right  to 
the  name,  not  because  he  was  a  godlike  man,  but  be- 
cause he  was  the  God-Man.     (P.  293.) 

Many  a  faithful  servant  of  Christ  has  passed 
away  from  the  world  crying  like  a  sobbing  child  at 
nightfall  and  praying  that  his  Lord  might  care  for 
his  unfinished  tasks  and  establish  the  work  of  his 
hands.  And  Christ  with  his  own  presence  and  pow- 
er has  perfected  the  work  of  his  devoted  servants. 
Love's  labor  is  never  lost.     (P.  297.) 

The  day  is  far  spent ;  the  night  is  at  hand ;  thy 
servant  toils  now  amid  tasks  which  he  cannot  hope 
to  finish  before  dark.  Wilt  thou  not  perfect  that 
which  concerneth  him?     (P.  298.) 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

Practical  Studies  in  the  Fourth  Gospel, 
Vol.  II. 

No  one,  so  far*  as  the  Gospel  records  disclose, 
ever  died  in  the' presence  of  Jesus.     (P.  4.) 

Duty  is  more  to  be  followed  than  death  is  to  be 
feared.     (P.  8.) 

It  is  not  strange  that  Jesus  should  call  dying  a 
mere  sleeping,  for  he  saw  that  the  current  of  life 
was  unbroken  by  death.     (P.  14.) 

No  one  who  has  ever  been  raised  from  the  dead 
has  ever  given  one  word  of  account  concerning  the 
spiritual  world.  The  tattling  spirits  with  which 
spiritualists  profess  to  communicate  are  lying  spir- 
its. The  revelation  of  God,  and  not  the  details  and 
doings  of  the  invisible  world,  is  that  upon  which 
mankind  must  fasten  faith  and  found  life.     (P.  17.) 

Men  cannot  eavesdrop  on  the  heavenly  world. 
Peeping  and  prattling  spiritualism  cannot  reveal  to 
us  the  future  life;  but  Christ  in  us  is  the  "hope  of 
glory."    (Col.  i.  27.)     (P.  19.) 

All  false  things  have  the  property  of  uniting 
against  that  which  is  true.     (P.  25.) 

There  is  not  a  crime  in  all  the  catalogue  of  hu- 
(230) 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   231 

man  sin  which  has  not  been  committed  in  the  name 
of  some  virtue.     (P.  29.) 

A  bad  man  may  prophesy,  as  did  Balaam;  and 
Caiaphas  is  the  Balaam  of  New  Testament  history. 
(P.  31.) 

The  Lamb  of  God,  like  all  the  sacrificial  lambs 
of  the  tabernacle  and  the  temple,  was  slain  by  the 
priests.     (P.  32.) 

Bravado  is  not  bravery ;  it  is  only  reckless  pride. 
(P.  34.) 

Men  could  neither  hasten  nor  intimidate  "the 
strong  Son  of  God"  as  he  went  calmly  forward  to 
meet  his  "hour."  Serenely  and  unafraid  he  went  to 
his  crucifixion  as  the  unclouded  sun  in  the  evening 
goes  to  its  setting,  giving  promise  of  a  glorious  ris- 
ing on  the  morrow.     (P.  35.) 

So  perfect  were  Jesus's  human  sympathies  that 
he  was  equally  at  home  at  a  funeral  or  a  feast,  weep- 
ing with  the  tearful  or  rejoicing  with  the  glad. 
(P.  39.) 

Love  is  inventive.  Its  ministries  are  full  of  holy 
originality  and  sacred  surprises.     (P.  41.) 

The  uncalculating  acts  of  love  are  wiser  than  the 
cold  conclusions  of  worldly-wise  critics.     (P.  42.) 

It  is  true  that  he  who  regards  the  poor  honors 


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God,  and  it  is  equally  true  that  he  who  honors  Christ 
feeds  the  poor.     (Pp.  42,  43.) 

Judas  did  not  claim  that  the  cost  of  the  supper 
in  which  he  shared  was  not  given  to  the  poor ;  to 
him  there  was  no  waste  except  in  the  ointment,  in 
which  he  had  no  part.  Covetousness  is  both  deceit- 
ful and  deceived.     (P.  44.) 

With  the  broken  fragments  of  alabaster  that  fell 
from  her  hands  the  master  reared  for  Mary  an  im- 
perishable monument,  the  radiant  figure  at  the  top 
of  which  is  visible  from  all  lands,  and  he  inscribed 
on  its  face  the  most  perfect  epitaph :  "She  hath  done 
what  she  could."     (P.  45.) 

A  loveless  soul  which  begrudges  honors  done  to 
the  loving  Saviour  is  a  lost  soul.  (1  Cor.  xvi.  22.) 
(P.  46.) 

As  no  virus  is  more  deadly  than  blood  poison 
from  a  dead  body,  so  there  is  nothing  morally  worse 
than  gangrened  religion.     (P.  48.) 

The  modern  exponents  of  a  pale-faced  and  power- 
less gospel,  in  which  there  are  no  crimson  lines  of 
an  atoning  sacrifice,  have  erred  from  the  faith;  but 
the  whole  body  of  the  faithful  has  not  strayed  from 
the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus  by  making  the  cross  cen- 
tral in  the  Christian  system.     (P.  77.) 

Jesus  could  not  reach  his  throne  except  by  way 
of   the   cross ;   and  he  that   would   share   his   glory 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler   233 

must  walk  with  him  through  Gethsemane  to  Calvary. 
(Rev.  iii.  21.)     (P.  79.) 

The  cross  did  not  surprise  Jesus  by  bringing  to 
him  unexpected  shame  and  pain ;  on  his  whole  life 
its  shadow  fell,  and  he  knew  full  well  its  meaning. 
(P.  80.) 

Jesus  did  not  suffer  as  a  denatured  or  abnormal 
man.  He  showed  that  human  nature  is  equal  to 
bearing  the  cross.  By  his  help  we  too  in  our  earth- 
ly natures  bear  our  crosses,  not  by  vainly  denying 
that  they  bring  us  pain,  but  by  faithfully  fulfilling 
our  Father's  will  through  sufferings.     (Pp.  80,  81.) 

A  crucified  Saviour  is  the  center  and  Sovereign 
of  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  Sacrificial  love  reigns 
throughout  the  universe  of  God.     (P.  82.) 

Iniquity  secretes  infidelity  as  the  liver  secretes 
bile.     (P.  91.) 

These  cowardly  men  were  convinced  but  not  con- 
verted. They  adopted  the  perilous  principles  of 
allowing  their  relations  to  men  to  dominate  their 
relations  to  God.     (P.  94.) 

The  love  of  human  praise  is  as  hurtful  to  the 
health  of  the  soul  as  an  exclusive  diet  of  sweetmeats 
is  injurious  to  the  body.     (P.  95.) 

The  men  of  our  day  have  ceased  to  abhor  or  fear 
the  sin  of  unbelief  in  Jesus.     This  they  have  done 


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because  they  have  dethroned  the  Lord  of  Hfe  and 
hght  and  deified  ethical  abstractions.  They  are 
ready  to  denounce  dishonesty,  condemn  Hcentious- 
ness,  and  generally  disapprove  the  infractions  of 
the  moral  law  which  are  inconvenient  to  a  life  in 
the  flesh,  especially  such  immoralities  as  are  injuri- 
ous to  the  interests  and  pursuits  of  a  commercial 
age;  but  they  do  not  regard  with  special  aversion 
or  apprehension  the  sin  of  doubting  and  denying  Je- 
sus. Nevertheless,  Christ  is  a  real  Person,  and  dis- 
loyalty to  him  is  treason  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 
God  will  not  hold  him  guiltless  who  despises  the 
only-begotten  Son  and  tramples  underfoot  the  word 
of  his  grace.  This  is  the  teaching  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment on  every  page,  and  it  cannot  be  set  aside  in 
order  to  conform  to  the  spirit  of  the  age  and  the 
unspiritual  standards  of  a  carnal  world.  (Pp.  98, 
99.) 

The  difficult  lesson  of  humility  was  drawn  in  fair- 
est lines  by  the  Master's  hands  as  he  washed  their 
peasant  feet,  and  with  them  we  shall  do  well  to  lay 
it  to  heart.     (P.  107.) 

Humility  is  no  passive  mood  of  self-measuring 
consciousness,  thinking  meanly  of  itself  and  count- 
ing its  mean  thinking  as  a  virtue  to  be  proud  of ;  but 
it  is  love  actively  engaged,  not  reckoning  the  divin- 
est  life  too  high  nor  the  greatest  position  too  lofty 
to  be  used  for  rendering  the  lowliest  service  to  the 
lowliest  people.     (P.  109.) 

Earthborn  humanitarianism,  having  no  high  con- 


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ception  of  the  essential  dignity  of  human  nature, 
is  often  proud  and  contemptuous  in  its  efforts  to 
relieve  the  bodily  ills  of  men;  but  Christian  humil- 
ity is  tender  and  brotherly.     (P.  111.) 

Secret  sin  long  indulged  grows  daily ;  and  if  not 
cleansed  away,  it  is  at  last  precipitated  by  an  un- 
expected incident  into  hopeless  depths  of  shame. 
(P.  124.) 

Satan  enters  into  Judas  and  with  the  Satanic  en- 
trance he  takes  the  plunge  into  eternal  infamy,  as 
the  swine  ran  into  the  sea  when  the  devil  went  into 
the  herd.     (P.  125.) 

In  its  last  stages  sin  runs  its  course  very  swiftly, 
and  its  latest  stages  may  begin  any  day  in  the 
smallest  incident.     (P.  126.) 

Christ  rejoices  in  his  cross,  because  it  boars  liiin 
to  his  crown ;  and  in  this  paradox  of  experience  his 
servants  follow  him.     (P.  127.) 

To  a  cleansed  man  unsuspected  weaknesses  may 
cling  by  which,  if  he  be  not  watchful,  he  may  fall 
into  sin.     (P.  129.) 

"Peter  went  out,  and  wept  bitterly."  Tears, 
tears !  Like  the  dews  of  heaven,  they  never  form 
under  thick,  remorseful  clouds,  but  under  clear, 
penitential  skies  and  the  tender  eyes  of  the  stars 
of  hope.     (P.  131.) 

Whom  Christ  cannot  cleanse,  he  cannot  comfort. 
(P.  131.) 


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A  heart  of  covetousness  is  a  soul  filled  with  cor- 
roding care.     (P.  132.) 

Greed  disquiets  while  it  destroys.     (P.  132.) 

St.  Paul  says  of  himself:  "I  had  not  known  lust, 
except  the  law  had  said,  Thou  shalt  not  covet." 
(Rom.  vii.  7.)  He  took  the  place  of  Judas  in  the 
apostolic  circle ;  but  he  was  cleansed  of  the  covet- 
ousness which  conquered  the  betrayer,  and  he  knew 
"the  peace  of  God,  which  passeth  all  understanding." 
(P.  132.) 

However  things  may  appear  to  the  reason,  or 
however  painfully  sorrow  may  press  upon  the  heart, 
Ave  must  rally  our  faith  hy  a  supreme  effort  of  the 
•will  around  God  as  revealed  in  Jesus  Christ  our 
Lord.     (P.  136.) 

It  is  enough  that  heaven  is  where  Jesus  is,  and 
that  it  is  what  he  makes  it  for  himself  and  for  his 
children.     (P.  139.) 

Men  often  know  great  truths  the  implications  of 
which  they  grasp  not  for  a  long  time.     (P.  140.) 

Life  is  a  personally  conducted  journey.  We  do 
not  follow  a  map  of  heaven,  but  we  are  guided  by  a 
Man — even  the  Man  Christ  Jesus,  the  Lord  of  light 
and  life.     (P.  141.) 

The  movement  of  God  in  Christ  is  always  a  "cre- 
scendo   movement."      Christ    was    not    a    vanishing 


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quantity  when  he  descended  into  the  grave,  nor 
when  he  ascended  into  the  heavens.  His  followers 
still  hold  to  and  are  held  by  One  who  has  super- 
natural power,  and  thereby  they  achieve  results  be- 
yond all  earthly  powers  or  processes  to  bring  to 
pass.     (P.  143.) 

Christ's  laws  are  the  moral  manifestation  of  his 
Person,  and  the  Christian  keeps  them  out  of  devo- 
tion to  him  as  the  soul's  supreme  object  of  affection. 
(P.  150.) 

There  is  no  moral  discomfiture  possible  to  the 
soul  which  is  animated  by  love  for  Christ  and  as- 
sisted by  the  Hol}^  Spirit ;  the  loftiest  aspirations 
of  such  a  soul  for  holiness  of  life  cannot  be  disap- 
pointed.    (P.  151.) 

In  the  love  which  springs  from  obedience,  and  in 
the  obedience  which  is  the  proof  of  love,  devout  souls 
find  the  knowledge  of  the  Comforter's  presence  and 
help.     (P.  158.) 

The  mansion  of  God,  the  Father  and  the  Son  and 
the  Holy  Spirit,  on  earth  is  the  loving  and  dutiful 
heart.     (P.  160.) 

The  disciple  of  Christ  advances  not  to  death  nor 
to  any  trial  as  a  slave  scourged  to  his  place,  but  he 
goes  as  a  brave  soldier  follows  into  battle  the  leader 
whom  he  loves  and  with  whom  he  is  ready  to  die. 
(P.  168.) 

The  Church  grows  out  of  Christ  and  is  depend- 


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ent  on  him  for  its  life,  while  he  through  his  Church 
expresses  himself  in  the  world  and  delivers  himself 
on  the  world.     (P.  174.) 

The  spiritual  culture  of  a  human  soul  is  the  care 
of  God  the  Father,  and  he  deals  with  every  Chris- 
tian as  a  branch  of  Christ,  the  true  Vine.  He  does 
nothing  except  with  the  distinct  aim  of  increasing 
fruitfulness  of  the  life.  His  treatment  of  each  soul 
is  adapted  to  its  condition  and  needs,  and  is  directed 
by  infinite  tenderness  and  divine  skill.     (P.  177.) 

A  life  that  has  no  Christian  roots  cannot  by  any 
possibility  yield  Christian  fruits.     (P.  180.) 

A  useless  life  is  a  life  not  worth  living.     (P.  181.) 

Men  who  cease  praying  and  fall  to  philosophiz- 
ing merely  about  prayer  bring  no  fruit  to  perfec- 
tion in  the  kingdom  of  God.     (P.  181.) 

He  who  abides  in  Christ  prevails  in  prayer  be- 
cause Christ  prevails  in  his  heart.     (P.  181.) 

The  life  of  a  true  disciple  workcth  by  love ;  it 
does  not  observe  law  lovelessly  nor  profess  to  love 
while  living  lawlessly.     (P.  183.) 

The  joy  of  God  is  the  recovery  of  penitent  souls. 
(P.  184.) 

Christly  love  is  not  a  mere  natural  affection ;  it  is 
the  outflow  of  a  supernatural  life.     (P.  188.) 


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Friendship  with  God  is  set  forth  in  the  Scriptures 
as  a  relation  of  unearthly  love  and  heavenly  in- 
timacy.    (P.  190.) 

The  pure  in  heart  see  God,  and  visions  are  for 
the  virtuous.     (P.  192.) 

An  unloving  soul  has  no  place  in  the  Christ  circle ; 
it  is  a  sterile  soul,  bearing  no  spiritual  fruit  and 
having  no  power  in  prayer.     (P.  193.) 

Love  among  Christ's  friends  is  especially  de- 
manded by  the  fact  that  they  live  and  labor  in  an 
unfriendly  world.     (P.  194.) 

All  inhumanity,  iniquity,  and  immorality  is  the 
fruit  of  wicked  ignorance  of  God  and  willful  oppo- 
sition to  his  cause.     (P.  196.) 

One  of  the  apostles  escaped  persecution  at  the 
hands  of  the  Jewish  rulers — Judas.  They  did  not 
abuse  him  because  they  could  use  him.     (P.  197.) 

All  nature  indicts  iniquity  and  declares  sin  in- 
excusable.    (P.  198.) 

The  chief  function  of  an  apostle  was  to  be  a  wit- 
ness for  Jesus.  Too  many  modern  Christians  are 
more  ready  to  appear  before  the  world  as  attorneys 
for  Jesus  than  as  witnesses  for  him.  But  he  does 
not  ask  us  to  be  his  advocate,  but  his  "witnesses." 
Christianity  is  "good  news"  rather  than  merely  a 
good  argument.     (Pp.  199,  200.) 


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Our  Lord  tells  not  his  children  all  that  is  before 
them,  but  when  trials  and  temptations  draw  nigh  he 
grants  them  timely,  prevenient  grace.  What  a 
blessed  thing  it  is  that  he  does  not  reveal  all  the 
future  in  advance !  Mercifully  he  conceals  from  us 
the  road  over  which  we  are  to  pass ;  but  he  gives 
us  light  on  the  way  as  it  is  needed,  even  the  light 
of  his  own  presence  and  the  guidance  of  his  own 
hand.     (Pp.  205,  206.) 

Not  Christ  as  the  Great  Teacher  or  the  Great 
Example  or  the  Great  Martyr;  but  Christ  as  the 
ever-living  Son  of  God,  sitting  at  the  right  hand  of 
the  Majesty  on  high,  is  the  Lord  upon  whom  we 
rely.     (Pc  207.) 

Only  as  men  enter  into  "the  truth  as  it  is  in  Je- 
sus" do  they  really  possess  it.  We  must  see  the 
glories  of  this  truth  as  we  see  the  beauty  of  a 
cathedral  window — from  the  inside.     (P.  212.) 

The  Holy  Ghost  has  no  new  revelation;  he  is  the 
interpreter  of  the  old  revelation  already  made  in 
Christ,  which  is  a  full  revelation  as  to  God  and  final 
as  to  earth.  Any  progress  of  doctrine  which  is  not 
in  harmony  with  the  unchanging  Christ  is  not  a 
progress,  but  a  retrogression  to  darkness.  Pre- 
tended revelations  that  dishonor  Christ  are  not  of 
the  Spirit,  but  of  the  devil.  (1  Cor.  xii.  3.)  We 
are  not  to  follow  false  teachers,  whether  they  come 
in  the  name  of  "advanced  thought"  or  in  the  name 
of  fanatical  superstitions  and  pretended  revelations. 
(P.  213.) 


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The  supremacy  and  finality  of  Christ  will  not  be 
denied  by  any  one  who  is  truly  taught  by  the  Holy 
Ghost.     (P.  214..) 

Blessed  with  Jesus's  abiding  presence,  believers 
triumph  over  temptation,  stand  undismayed  amid 
persecutions,  meet  duty  faithfully,  and  come  off 
from  life  more  than  conquerors.     (P.  219.) 

In  the  light  of  Jesus's  death  and  resurrection  we 
find  the  solution  of  all  our  questions  concerning  life 
and  immortality.  From  his  empty  grave,  where  he 
conquered  death,  spring  joy  and  hope  which  cannot 
perish.     (P.  224.) 

Loneliness  is  one  of  the  inevitable  trials  of  the 
Christian  life  and  often  a  necessary  consequence  of 
its  principles.     (P.  230.) 

The  art  of  Christian  living  is  learning  to  walk 
alone  with  God.     (P.  231.) 

However  lonely  and  oppressed  a  disciple  of  Christ 
may  be,  he  has  peace  in  his  heart  and  enjoys  vic- 
tory over  the  world.     (P.  231.) 

Only  when  a  Christian  imbibes  the  spirit  of  the 
world  is  he  defeated  by  it.     (P.  234.) 

The  incorruptible  are  the  invincible,  and  the  vir- 
tuous soul  is  always  victorious.     (P.  234.) 

There  is  no  good  so  good  as  grace;  only  glory  is 
better.     (P.  250.) 
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In  the  act  of  prayer  to  God  men  are  honest  and 
sincere,  if  ever ;  and  before  the  mercy  seat  they 
measure  themselves  by  the  divine  standard  and  take 
their  true  position.     (P.  239.) 

He  meant  to  teach  them  while  he  prayed;  he 
prayed  aloud  that  they  might  be  instructed  by  him 
while  he  interceded  for  them.     (P.  240.) 

The  purpose  of  the  incarnation,  culminating  in 
an  atoning  sacrifice,  is  that  God  the  Father  may  be 
glorified  by  the  salvation  of  mankind.     (P.  242.) 

True  Christians  must  know  God  in  Christ  Jesus, 
walk  with  their  Saviour  as  "his  own"  peculiar  peo- 
ple, separate  themselves  from  the  world,  and  keep 
God's  word.     (P.  247.) 

Christ's  disciples  must  neither  flee  the  world  nor 
follow  it.     (P.  251.) 

Crucified  messengers  are  required  to  carry 
throughout  the  world  the  gospel  of  a  crucified  Sav- 
iour.    (P.  252.) 

The  unity  for  which  Christ  prays  here  is  one- 
ness of  life  among  all  Christians,  not  sameness  of 
ecclesiastical  organization.     (P.  253.) 

The  good  influences  to  which  we  yield,  and  not 
simply  those  we  have,  do  us  good.     (P.  262.) 

Secret  sins  cannot  be  indulged  without  giving 
rise  at  last  to  open  crime.     (P.  262.) 


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Genuine  catholicity  respects  the  Christians  of  all 
Churches  and  the  Churches  of  all  Christians.  (P. 
254.) 

Sin  begins  in  selfishness  and  ends  in  solitude. 
(P.  263.) 

Character  determines  association  in  this  world, 
and  it  determines  place  in  the  next.     (P.  264.) 

The  tempters  who  destroy  men  are  ever  heartless 
toward  those  whom  they  have  led  to  fall.     (P.  264.) 

The  seducing  world  despises  the  apostate  dis- 
ciple whom  it  has  seduced.     (P.  265.) 

No  man  ever  died  a  more  natural  death  than  did 
Iscariot.     (P.  265.) 

Peter  was  off  his  guard  on  his  strong  side — the 
point  where  men  generally  fail.     (P.  267.) 

One  may  forsake  Jesus  by  silence  as  well  as  deny 
him  by  speech.     (P.  268.) 

It  is  the  spirit  of  a  Christian  to  forget  the  faults 
of  others  and  to  confess  one's  own  faults.  (P. 
268.) 

Christian  courage  comes  from  seeing  in  all  the 
ills  of  life,  even  in  the  wrongs  done  us,  the  hand  of 
God.     (P.  269.) 

That  is  the  vilest  wickedness  which  moves  to  its 
ends  under  pretense  of  virtue.     (P.  281.) 


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Jesus's  cross  provokes  us  to  penitence  for  our 
sins,  but  not  to  pity  for  his  pains.  We  wonder  and 
worship  in  the  presence  of  a  manifestation  of  love 
beyond  the  power  of  mere  man.     (P.  272.) 

Men  with  supercalendered  consciences  have  more 
respect  for  holy  days  than  they  have  regard  for 
holy  deeds ;  they  can  murder  an  apostle  with  less 
scruples  than  they  can  violate  a  form.     (P.  281.) 

An  accusation  which  cannot  bear  formal  state- 
ment nor  be  sustained  by  evidence,  but  is  supported 
only  by  an  appeal  to  the  good  character  of  the 
accuser,  is  on  its  face  false,  though  uttered  in  lofty 
tones  of  affected  truthfulness.     (P.  281.) 

Moral  weakness  is  the  fruit  of  spiritual  blindness. 
(P.  291.) 

The  unavoidable  Christ  was  before  him.  (  P. 
292.) 

Men  fight  Christianity  because  it  fights  their  sin- 
fulness and  selfishness.     (P.  293.) 

It  was  given  to  Pilate  to  occupy  the  most  fate- 
ful judicial  position  in  which  any  man  was  ever 
placed — to  preside  at  the  trial  of  the  Saviour  of 
the  world.     (P.  300.) 

Power  of  every  sort,,  whether  personal  or  official, 
comes  to  men  under  the  providence  of  God  for  good 
purposes,  and  the  way  it  is  used  reveals  character 
and  determines  destiny.     (P.  309.) 


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More  souls  are  lost,  perhaps,  from  weak  fear  of 
the  world  than  from  malignant  opposition  to  Christ. 
(P.  313.) 

There  was  scarcely  an  ignoble  passion  of  the  hu- 
man soul  which  was  not  arrayed  against  the  Son  of 
God.  Bribery,  perjury,  treachery,  profanity, 
priestly  infidehty,  judicial  corruption,  popular 
frenzy,  and  military  heartlessness  were  all  combined 
in  his  condemnation  and  crucifixion;  while  what  lit- 
tle of  human  love  and  virtue  which  remained  among 
men  seemed  frightened  to  speecliless  helplessness. 
(Pp.  317,  318.) 

The  ancient  world  in  the  crucifixion  of  Jesus  went 
to  the  bottom  of  infamy;  and  whatever  goodness  is 
in  the  modern  world  rose  out  of  his  grave.  (P. 
318.) 

Christ's  cross  pulled  all  other  crosses  down. 
Crucifixion  would  not  be  tolerated  anywhere  in  the 
earth  to-day.     (P.  319.) 

Christ's  life  in  individual  souls  will  express  itself 
in  nobler  customs  and  loftier  enterprises  in  the  earth 
as  humanity  in  the  mass  is  leavened  by  his  saving 
power.     (P.  320.) 

The  cross  is  Christ's  credential.     (P.  323.) 

At  the  center  of  history  is  a  vicarious  Sufferer, 
and  its  glorious  consummation  will  be  in  "the  mar- 
riage of  the  Lamb."     (P.  331.) 


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Doubts  pass  if  love  persists.     (P.  340.) 

The  main  thing  in  the  world  with  which  the  Apos- 
tles were  to  deal  was  its  sin — not  primarily  its  ig- 
norance, its  sickness,  its  poverty,  or  any  other  mere 
misfortune  or  adversity,  but  its  supreme  distress 
was  sin.  Its  sin  he  considered  the  seat  of  all  its 
woe;  and  that  being  remedied,  all  other  ills  would 
be  cured.     (P.  351.) 

Wounded  pride  festers  often  and  secretes  doubt. 
(P.  356.) 

Faith  reaches  saving  power  when  it  lays  hold  of 
the  risen  Lord.  Revelation  can  show  us  nothing 
more  about  God  than  is  disclosed  in  the  God-man 
thus  raised  to  the  highest  power.  He  is  the  object 
of  faith  and  the  climax  of  hope  to  the  faithful  on 
the  earth.  He  is  also  the  model  and  power  of  the 
Christian  life.     (Col.  iii.  1.)     (P.  359.) 

The  chief  qualification  for  doing  Christ's  work 
is  ardent  love  for  him.     (P.  369.) 

No  one  will  have  tenderness  enough  or  courage 
enough  to  care  for  the  flock  of  Christ  who  does  not 
love  tenderly  the  great  Shepherd  of  the  sheep  and 
sympatliize  with  the  Shepherd's  love  for  his  lambs. 
(P.  370.) 

The  care  and  control  of  one's  life  must  pass  out 
of  his  own  hands  Into  the  hands  of  God  before  he  is 
ready  for  the  highest  service.     (P.  371.) 


CHAPTER  IX. 

The  Kingdom  of  God's  Dear  Son. 

The  most  "proper  study  of  mankind"  is  "the  king- 
dom of  God's  dear  Son."     (Preface.) 

The  kingdom  of  God  arises  from  his  own  majestic 
nature  and  divine  sovereignty,  and  it  is  coeval  with 
his  eternity.     (P.  3.) 

The  mold  in  which  creation  was  cast  was  the 
conception  of  Fatherhood  and  the  goal  of  its  move- 
ment Sonship.     (P.  4.) 

Composed  of  a  material  body  and  a  moral  nature 
and  akin  to  the  divine  nature,  man  became  the  summit 
of  the  pyramid  of  creation  and  the  middle  link  be- 
tween the  physical  and  the  spiritual,  through  which 
is  effectuated  the  union  of  the  Creator  and  the 
created.  He  is  of  all  creatures,  therefore,  the  most 
completely  representative.     (P.  14.) 

The  Son  of  God  by  nature  is  the  brother  of  man, 
and  by  his  incarnation  he  takes  hold  of  humanity 
as  with  a  mighty  hand  to  lift  it  to  the  perfection 
of  the  measure  of  the  stature  of  his  own  fullness, 
and  to  make  it  the  abiding  tabernacle  of  God  by  a 
personal  union  with  himself.     (P.  17.) 

In  Paradise  God  talks  with  man  face  to  face  in 
the  tender  tones  of  a  father  to  a  son.    He  thus  shows 

(247) 


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himself  as  the  God  of  man  that  his  new-made  child 
may  be  the  man  of  God.     (P.  23.) 

Both  the  Primitive  and  the  Christian  Sabbath 
embody  the  essential  sabbatism  which  appertains  to 
the  filial  kingdom,  and  both  symbolize  the  eternal 
Sabbath  which  will  follow  the  final  consummation  of 
the  kingdom.     (P.  25.) 

Man  is  the  only  creature  on  earth  which  has  any 
conception  of  his  origin,  or  responds  to  the  divine 
law,  or  foreknows  the  fact  of  death.     (P.  32.) 

As  Enoch  pursued  with  unwavering  faith  the  path 
of  Christly  life,  apart  from  the  world,  the  angels 
met  him,  and  he  was  better  suited  to  their  company 
than  to  the  companionship  of  the  world,  and  so  "he 
was  not  found  because  God  had  translated  him" 
(Heb.  xi.  5).  And  those  whom  he  left  behind  knew 
where  he  was  because  they  had  seen  what  he  was. 
(P.  41.) 

Redemption  will  reverse  all  the  desolation  wrought 
in  the  earth  by  sin.     (P.  49.) 

Abraham,  Isaac,  and  Jacob  were  tall  sons  of  God, 
standing  on  lofty  peaks,  welcoming  from  afar  the 
dawn  of  the  Messiah's  reign  and  reporting  to  all  in 
the  dark  valleys  around  them  the  rising  Sun,  and 
foretelling  the  cloudless,  eternal  day  that  would  sure- 
ly follow  His  coming.     (P.  57.) 

Isaac  seemed  to  have  lived  on  a  lofty  plateau  of 
peace,  without  peaks  or  depressions,  illustrating  in 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler  249 

continuous  consecration  more  than  in  any  single  act 
or  striking  incident  of  his  Hfe  the  Messianic  hope. 
To  him  it  was  given  to  be  a  sort  of  living  parable 
or  acted  allegory  of  the  Christ  who  was  to  come. 
(P.  60.) 

Jacob,  whose  life  before  his  strange  experiences  at 
Peniel  was  so  similar  to  their  own  subsequent  worldli- 
ness  and  waywardness,  and  whose  nature  and  name 
were  there  changed  from  that  of  "a  supplanter"  to 
that  of  "a  Prince  of  God,"  gave  his  new  name  of 
Israel  to  the  nation,  in  which  fact  was  foreshadowed 
the  purpose  of  God  concerning  them  as  his  chosen 
people.  They  were  to  be  a  princedom  or  principality 
in  the  world-wide  kingdom  of  heaven.     (P.  67.) 

The  fate  of  nations  is  determined  and  turns  on 
their  attitude  to  "the  kingdom  of  God's  dear  Son," 
and  they  are  placed  with  reference  to  that  fact. 
They,  no  less  than  Israel,  have  their  times  determined 
and  the  bounds  of  their  habitations  fixed  by  God  to 
the  end  that  they  may  seek  the  Lord  "if  haply  they 
may  feel  after  him  and  find  him"  (Acts  xvii.  36, 
37).     (P.  71.) 

Israel's  worship  was  unlike  that  of  any  other  peo- 
ple, and  it  is  utterly  inexplicable  by  the  naturalistic 
theorizing  of  the  rationalists.  The  filial  nation  was 
peculiar,  and  their  religion  was  a  peculiar  religion. 
(P.  75.) 

While  Israel  was  hovered  in  trustful  repose  under 
the  wings  of  the  eternal  Son  (Ps.  xxxvi.  7),  she  and 


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her  children  were  secure,  but  when  she  fled  that  holy 
covert  she  and  her  brood  became  the  prey  of  the 
Roman  eagles.     (P.  108.) 

Who  will  not  be  saved  must  be  overwhelmed.  When 
the  great  day  of  His  wrath  is  come,  who  shall  be 
able  to  stand  (Rev.  vi.  6)?     (P.  108.) 

Rome  was  the  embodiment  of  force  and  the  creation 
of  the  selfish  use  of  power.  It  was  the  admired  model 
of  all  government  resting  on  worldly  foundations, 
springing  from  mundane  motives,  and  sustained  by 
earthly  instrumentalities.     (P.  116.) 

Christ  would  have  nothing  less  than  a  spiritual 
kingdom,  arising  from  the  personality  of  the  Heaven- 
ly King,  and  consisting  of  citizen-sons,  partaking  of 
the  divine  nature  and  reflecting  the  unearthly  glory 
of  their  paternal  Sovereign.     (P.  118.) 

The  awful  tragedy  of  Calvary  shows  that  His  an- 
tagonism to  sin  is  not  the  hostility  of  vengeful  hate, 
but  that  of  saving  love.  The  divine  attitude  to  sin 
is  revealed,  not  in  inflicting  sufi'ering,  but  by  sufl'er- 
ing  its  infliction.  Sinners  escape  because  the  sinless 
Son  voluntarily  suffered  for  them  and  thereby  satis- 
fied the  demands  of  justice  and  opened  the  way  for 
the  exercise  of  mercy,  revealing  the  mind  of  God 
toward  sin  and  at  the  same  time  providing  a  remedy 
for  sin.  Sin  is  condemned,  though  the  sinner  es- 
capes.    (P.  126.) 

The  resurrection  and  ascension  declared  that  the 


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principle  of  vicarious  suffering  is  central  to  the  filial 
life  of  the  kingdom  of  God.     (P.  140.) 

As  the  Holj  Spirit  identified  Jesus  as  the  Son  of 
God  to  John  the  Baptist  (John  i.  32,  33),  so  the 
outpouring  of  the  Spirit  in  all  liis  fullness  did  at 
Pentecost,  and  does  now,  attest  and  manifest  the  risen 
and  ascended  Christ  to  men.     (P.  141.) 

Ride  on,  0  Thou  kingly  Son  of  God,  coming  with 
"dyed  garments  from  Bozrah,  traveling  in  the  great- 
ness of  thy  strength,  mighty  to  save  (Isa.  xlii.  1)  ; 
ride  on  prosperously  until  the  kingdoms  of  this 
world  have  become  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and 
his  Christ.     (P.  144.) 

The  kingdom  of  God  is  the  reign  of  the  Spirit 
within  men.     (P.  149.) 

The  foundation  of  the  Church  is  laid  in  the  per- 
sonal revelation  of  the  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  to  the  human  soul,  and  the  keys  which  open 
the  doors  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven  are  found  in 
the  same  divine  disclosure.    (P.  151.) 

The  Incarnate  Son  is  both  the  Alpha  and  the 
Omega  of  the  kingdom  of  God ;  and  what  he  de- 
signed in  creation  is  that  which  he  will  have  fully 
accomplished  in  the  end  of  the  world,  when  he  "shall 
have  put  down  all  rule  and  all  authority  and  power" 
and  "shall  have  delivered  up  the  kingdom  to  God, 
even  the  Father,"  The  "Paradise  Lost"  is  to  be 
more  than  restored  in  the  "Paradise  Regained,"  for 


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the  consequences  of  grace  in  the  second  Adam  are  to 
abound  far  beyond  the  results  of  sin  in  the  first 
Adam  (Rom.  v.  20).     (P.  165.) 

The  Church  is  the  natural  and  inevitable  corpora- 
tion of  all  the  filial  and  brotherly  souls  who  have 
been  delivered  from  the  power  of  darkness  and  trans- 
lated "into  the  kingdom  of  God's  dear  Son"  (Col.  i. 
13).    (P.  175.) 


INDEXES. 

Topical. 
Textual, 


TOPICAL    INDEX. 


PREPARED  BY  CURTIS  B.  HALEY. 


Abel.  168,  169. 
Able  must  help  the  weak,  118. 
Abomination  of  desolation,  120. 
Abraham — call   of,    189;   in   strange 

country,    168;    Isaac,   and   Jacob, 

248;  Lot,  and  Sodom,  211. 
Absolutism  in  government,  191. 
Abstract  idea  has  no  power,  112. 
Acceptance  of  Christ  by  the  world, 

221. 
Accepting  God's  Son,  219. 
Accumulating  the  first  thousand,  139. 
Accusation  which  cannot  bear  formal 

statement,  244. 
Acid  test  of  character,  25. 
Acrobatic  agitators,  87. 
Active  and  passive  virtues,  154. 
Acts  of  love,  231. 
Adam,  first  and  second,  252. 
Adverse  circumstances,  78. 
Africans  brought  to  Christ,  192. 
Age  free  from  enthusiasm,  142. 
Age  limits  for  students,  116. 
Age  of  doubt,  45;  of  indolent  indif- 

ferentism,  68;  of  intolerance,  68; 

of  jests  and  jokers,  115;  of  lu.xury, 

67;  of  reason,  208. 
Age  of  the  Reformation,  the  age  of 

reason,  208. 
Aged  hero,  sacred,  179. 
Agitators,  acrobatic,  87. 
Agnostic  plumes  himself  on  modesty, 

119. 
Agnosticism,  68,  156,  172. 
Agony  of  suffering,  107. 
Ahab  had  his  Elijah,  212, 
Alabaster  box,  121,  131. 
Alabaster,  broken  fragments  of,  232. 
Alexander  conquered  men,  202. 
Algebra,  geometry,  and  trigonometry 

in  Sophomore  year,  143. 
All  things  demand  explanation,  152. 
Allegory  of  the  Christ,  249. 
Allies  of  the  soul,  78. 


Allusions  to  current  events,  157. 

Alms  flow  from  adoration,  30. 

Alpha  and  Omega,  61,  251. 

Alternatives  of  thought,  172. 

Altogether  for  Christ,  107. 

Alumni  insure  lives  for  college,  144. 

Amateur  opera  singing,  69. 

Ambassadors  of  God,  89. 

Ambiguity,  graduates  of,  116. 

Ambition  clings  to  the  soul,  112. 

Ambition,  feverish.  44. 

Ambition  is  omnivorous,  112. 

Ambitions,  unholy,  16. 

Ambitious  partisanism,  68. 

America  the  hope  of  mankind,  172. 

America,  why  not  called  Columbia,  13. 

American  college  should   be   recon- 
structed, 97. 

American  colonies,  founding  of,  189. 

Analogies  of  nature,  151. 

Ananias  and  Sapphira,  122. 

Anarchists,  27. 

Anathema  Maran-atha,  110. 

Ancient  pieces  called  sermons,  94. 

Ancient  world  in  the  crucifixion,  245. 

Ancient  world  went  to  sleep,  160. 

Anglo-Saxon   nations   and    Method- 
ism, 198. 

Anniversary  of  Orphans'  Home,  118. 

Antagonisms  of  classes,  202. 

Antecedent  probability  of  revelation, 
150. 

Apostate  disciples,  243. 

Apostle,  chief  function  of  an,  239. 

Apostles,  functions  of,  161. 

Apostles'  Creed,  referred  to,  75. 

Apostolic  Church,  belief  of,  158. 

Apparent  success,  69. 

Appeal  of  Christianity,  71,  72. 

Appeals  to  shallow  motives,  72. 

Appearance  of  the  true  God,  153. 

Applause  by  men  of  the  world,  76. 

Appointments,  noncommittal  about, 
124. 

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Arabia,  28. 

Archdeacon  of  selfishness,  108. 

Archdemon  of  evil,  185. 

Argument  of  force,  183. 

Arguments,  unanswerable,  75. 

Armenia,  28. 

Armies  need  physicians,  76. 

Arrogant  scientist,  145. 

Art  of  Christian  living,  241. 

Artesian  streams,  35. 

Ascension,  250. 

Asceticism  of  conduct,  163. 

Associated  effort,  principle  of,  133. 

Atheism,  54,  60,  65,  151,  160,  189. 

Atheistic  altruism,  programs  of,  56. 

Atheistic  immorality.  72. 

Athletics,  moral  and  physical  results 

of,  18. 
Atlanta  ConslUuHon,  137. 
Atlas,  87. 

Atmosphere  of  criticism,  107. 
Atonement  rests  upon  human  heart, 

92. 
Attorney  not  necessary  between  man 

and  God,  150. 
Attorneys  for  Jesus,  239. 
Australia,  23. 

Authority,  decay  of  respect  for,  71. 
Autocrats,  27, 

Average  man  is  never  crucified,  52. 
Averse  to  controversy,  143. 

Baalism  and  Elijah,  51. 
Babe  of  Bethlehem,  homage  to,  154. 
Babel,  builders  of,  47. 
Back  to  God,  48. 

Backsliding  mistaken  for  progress,  67. 
Bad  man  may  prophesy,  231. 
Balaam,  231. 

Banker's  opinion  of  Christianity,  206. 
Baptists  come  bothering  us,  141. 
Barley  cakes  and  fishes,  175. 
Barromeo,  Cardinal,  170. 
Beecher  and  Brooks,  85. 
Behavior  and  belief,  24. 
Belief  and  behavior,  24. 
Belief  in  an  immoral  God,  151. 
Belief  not  to  be  compelled,  221. 
Believers  triumph  over  temptations, 
241. 


Benefactors  of  the  race,  200. 

Benevolence  and  brotherhood,  151. 

Benevolence,  floods  of,  80. 

Benevolence,  fountains  of,  opened, 
194. 

Benevolence,  lines  of,  178. 

Benevolence  of  God,  150. 

Bereans  of  our  times,  133. 

Best  work  preachers  can  do,  66. 

Bethlehem,  25. 

Better  classes  in  Church,  120. 

Bible — facts  about,  162;  enjoins  holi- 
ness of  life,  163;  the  old,  170; 
should  be  taught  at  college,  117. 

Bigotry  of  some  liberals,  83. 

Biologist  brings  perplexing  problems, 
202. 

Bird  that  wandereth,  102. 

Birds,  flight  of,  led  Columbus,  198. 

Birth  pang  of  human  hope,  120. 

Bishop's  duty  to  take  higher  course, 
171. 

Bleached  and  bloodless  cult,  92. 

Blind  worship  of  success,  70. 

Blood  of  Christ  alone  can  save,  80. 

Blood  poison,  232. 

Blue-back  speller,  42. 

Body  of  Christ  (the  Church),  defined, 
122. 

Boggy  places,  34. 

Book,  man  with  a,  151. 

"Book  religion  "  seems  to  satisfy,  151. 

Book,  supernatural,  the  subject  of 
God's  care,  152. 

Bookmakers,  migratory  cogitations 
of,  222. 

Books — large  collections  of,  186; 
mastering  great,  112;  mission  of 
good,  132;  old  are  best,  125;  on 
philosophy  of  religion,  82. 

Boston  culture,  187. 

Boundless  states  of  grace,  220. 

Bowing  before  public  opinion,  108. 

Box  parties,  57. 

Boy — necessary  to  Lord's  greatest 
work,  219;  plucky,  can  go  to  col- 
lege, 142;  will  get  education  if 
given  keys,  139. 

Bozrah,  dyed  garments  from,  251. 

Brag  too  much  of  liberality,  116. 


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Brahminism,  Buddhism,  etc.,  149. 

Bravado,  231. 

Bread,  daily,  166. 

Bread,  man  shall  not  hve  by,  etc., 
221. 

Breath — of  the  Almighty,  194;  of  the 
morning,  178;  on  the  morning  air, 
110. 

Brewers  and  Cuba,  204. 

Bribery,  perjury,  etc.,  245. 

Bride  of  Christ,  89. 

Bridegroom,  providence  of  the,  194. 

British  colonists,  198. 

Broadmindedness,  39. 

Brooks  and  Beeclier,  85. 

Brotherhood,  202. 

Brotherhood  and  benevolence,  151. 

Brotherhood,  human,  163. 

Brotherhood  of  man,  tenet  of,  153. 

Bruce,  Robert,  120. 

Buddhism,  Brahminism,  Mohammed- 
anism, 149. 

Buddhists,  assembly  of,  203. 

Building  empires,  204. 

Building  up  common  schools,  140. 

Bunyan,  John,  quoted,  181. 

Burbank  and  plants,  49. 

Burbanks,  clerical,  60. 

Burdens,  118. 

Burning  of  a  world,  58. 

Business  of  the  Church,  43,  116. 

Butler's  "Analogy,"  125. 

Buying  to  keep  from  giving,  118. 

Bygone  worthies,  175. 

Cabinet  meetings,  secrecy  of,  124. 

Caiaphas,  231. 

Cain's  cheap  plan  of  worship,  117. 

Calculating  common  sense,  108. 

Calculating  critics  of  religion,  101. 

Call  to  service,  103. 

Calmness,  24. 

Calvary,  25;  and  Sinai,  God  of,  101; 

scene  on,  52;  the  only  standpoint 

for  a  Christian,  112;  tragedy  of, 

250. 
Calvary's  cross,  177. 
Campaign-drivers,  87, 
Campaign    for    conversion    of    the 

world,  199. 

17 


Canada,  23. 

Cannibalism,  13;  moral,  99. 

Capital  and  labor,  196. 

Cardinal  Barromeo,  170. 

Carnal  mind,  222. 

Carpenter,  Jesus  an  untaught,  155. 

Cast  forth  your  lines,  173. 

Catch  phrases,  35. 

Catchwords  of  liberalism,  22. 

Catholic  Sunday  schools,  130. 

Catholicity — and  spirituaUty,  102; 
genuine,  243;  of  a  Church,  the  true, 
102;  of  spirit,  206;  prating  of,  40; 
manifestation  of  the  spirit  of,  74. 

Cattle,  fields,  railroads,  140. 

Cause  and  efifect,  152. 

Cemetery  silence,  143. 

Center  of  history,  245. 

Chaldea,  Abraham's  departure  from, 
189. 

Character,  16,  35,  243;  a  spiritual 
growth,  49;  acid  test  of,  25:  and 
confidence,  27:  and  creed,  71;  and 
motives,  71;  and  pov/er,  25;  goes 
farther  than  culture,  174;  of  Jesus, 
154. 

Charities,  organized,  194. 

Charlatans  and  demagogues,  181. 

Chemical  analysis  of  food,  32. 

Chief  aim  of  man,  117. 

Chief  function  of  an  apostle,  239. 

Chief  qualification  for  doing  Christ's 
work,  246. 

Child,  when  worse  than  an  orphan, 
43. 

Children — and  youth,  18;  if  robbed  of 
education,  140;  of  this  world  wiser, 
94;  needing  attention,  38;  sickness 
and  death  of,  218;  value  of,  com- 
pared with  cotton,  140;  tired,  50; 
we  must  not  waste,  140. 

China,  religious  status  of,  19. 

Chinese  republic,  93. 

Chivalry  among  foreign  mission- 
aries, 91. 

Chivalry,  time  for  a  higher,  168. 

Choice  of  a  profession,  179. 

Choir  loft,  69. 

Choir  money,  94 

Choirs,  193. 


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Christ — and  little  children,  43,  44; 
came  as  earth's  servant,  228;  goes 
before  his  Church,  162;  had  no  time 
to  waste,  227;  has  no  mate,  119; 
not  a  reformer,  119;  not  a  vanish- 
ing quantity,  236,  237 ;  not  less  than 
Saviour,  214;  penetrates  heights 
and  depths,  112;  preeminently  the 
world's  Saviour,  213;  rejoices  in  his 
cross,  235;  represented  in  every 
child,  118;  the  ever-living  Son  of 
God,  240;  the  hope  of  glory,  230; 
the  hope  of  the  world,  80;  the  best 
revelation  of  God,  60;  laws  of,  237. 

Christendom — menaced  by  heathen 
world,  92,  93;  has  wasted  sub- 
stance of  revelation,  148;  must  re- 
deem manliind,  203. 

Christian  cooperation,  133. 

Christian  courage,  243. 

Christian  cuUure,  165,  174,  184,  185. 

Christian  education  alone  malies  for 
peace,  98. 

Christian  fellowship  in  England,  89. 

Christian  fights  and  gains,  109. 

Christian  history,  81. 

Christian  humility,  235. 

Christian  life  a  personally  conducted 
journey,  46,  225. 

Christian  must  suffer  wrong,  14. 

Christian  perfection,  53. 

Christian  profession,  requirements  of, 
52. 

Christian  Sabbath,  21. 

Christian  Science,  Mormonism,  Spir- 
itualism, 148. 

Christian  should  be  full-orbed  man, 
110. 

Christian  sows  and  reaps  simulta- 
neously, 114. 

Christian  unity,  when  dishonored,  83. 

Christian,  when  defeated,  241. 

Christianity — a  matter  of  the  heart, 
43;  a  fertilizing  faith,  158;  a  reli- 
gion of  experience,  194;  a  revela- 
tion, 82;  an  increasing  power,  158; 
and  epistles,  157;  and  love  of  men, 
16;  and  the  times,  55;  as  a  reme- 
dial system,  40;  at  home  every- 
where, 30;  characteristics  of,  159; 


come  to  stay,  78;  effects  of,  inexpli- 
cable, 159;  engaged  in  war,204;plan3 
for  the  redemption  of  the  world, 
160;  full  and  final  truth,  83;  mass- 
ing its  energies,  135;  moral  fruits 
of,  63;  neither  science  nor  philoso- 
phy, 75 ;  not  a  philosophy,  82 ;  solves 
perplexities,  202,  203;  variousforms 
of,  204;  visible  proof  of  risen 
Christ,  159;  versus  communism,  15. 

Christianizing  the  social  system,  86. 

Christian's  actions  restricted,  53. 

Christians  and  heathen  discussed  re- 
ligion, 129. 

Christians  born  from  the  skies,  228. 

Christians  not  manufactured  by  men, 
229. 

Christless  marriages,  214. 

Christly  love,  238. 

Christmas,  57. 

Christ's  laws,  237. 

Christ's  work,  215. 

Christ's  work  to  be  done  in  his  way, 
215. 

Christus  Auctor,  161. 

Ckristus  Auctor:  A  Manual  of  Chris- 
tian Evidences,  148. 

Church — a  house  for  prayer,  93;  ac- 
tive, may  die,  109;  an  expert  in 
higher  education,  137;  can  do  what 
it  ought,  103;  cannot  renounce  ed- 
ucational policy,  145;  consults  duty 
and  interest,  102;  grows  out  of 
Christ,  237;  includes  best  people, 
34;  is  of  God,  100;  must  control, 
186;  must  outrank  countinghouse, 
101 ;  never  dies,  186;  not  to  be  used 
as  a  divider,  66;  place  for  a  Chris- 
tian, 122;  rises  out  of  the  grave  of 
Jesus,  158;  the  bride  of  Christ,  89; 
the  natural  corporation  of  broth- 
erly souls,  252;  the  only  hope  of 
redemption,  34;  the  only  redeem- 
ing agency,  36;  without  a  com- 
petitor, 33;  when  the  light  of  the 
world,  213;  why  in  the  world,  83. 

Church  and  colleges,  184. 

Church  college,  financing  a,  141.         , 

Church  members  in  the  South,  171. 

Church  mice,  181. 


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Church  schools,  185. 

Churches  and  educational  work,  101. 

Churches  and  preaching,  purpose  of, 

48. 
Churches  girdle  the  earth,  91. 
Churches,  how  built  up  in  America, 
192. 

Churches  that  call  their  preachers, 
124. 

Churchless  people,  84. 

Circumstances  and  man's  soul,  83. 

City  churches  pick  preachers,  212. 

Civic  righteousness,  72,  77. 

Civilization,  security  of,  28. 

Clean  heart  will  clarify  the  mind,  222. 

Cleanest  legislature,  etc.,  137. 

Cleansed  men  must  be  watchful,  235. 

Cleavage,  lines  of,  223. 

Clerical  demagogy,  81. 

Clerical  mechanics,  210. 

Clubs  for  all  manner  of  pseudo-re- 
forms, 57. 

Clumsy  piece  of  jugglery,  158. 

Coagulating  basin,  19. 

Coal  miners  and  peasants,  89. 

Coffers  of  kings,  194, 

Cold  cash,  186. 

Cold  days  for  suffering  race,  90. 

Colleges  must  be  strong,  20. 

Colonel  H —  can't  tell  a  joke,  143. 

Colonists,  kinship  of,  191. 

Colquitt,  Senator,  proud  of  his  pov- 
erty, 180. 

Columbus  industrious  as  discoverer, 
131. 

Columbus  led  by  flight  of  birds,  198. 

Commandments,  getting  away  from, 
73. 

Commerce  makes  entries  on  ledgers, 
154. 

Commerce     more     energetic     than 
Christianity,  94. 

Commerce,  tie  of,  18. 

Commercial  interests,  18. 

Commercial  world  runs  on  credit,  27. 

Common  origin,  202. 

Common  people,  193;  and  education, 
184. 

Common  salvation,  83. 

Common   schools — best   wishes   for, 


142;  feed  high  schools,  140;  with- 
holding money  from,   142. 
Commonplace    air,    sunshine,    and 
rain,  42. 

Common-sense  world  refuses  to  fol- 
low selfish  man,  1 74. 

Community,  religious,  23. 

Companion  of  saints,  221. 

Companionless,  Church  and  Christ, 
122. 

Complimentary  concessions  to  Christ, 
55. 

Compromising  concessions,  221. 

Conceit,  vainest  sort  of,  74. 

Conception  of  Fatherhood,  247. 

Conception  of  the  early  Church,  76. 

Concessions  to  rationalism,  betrayals 
of  truth,  148. 

Confidently  stated,  it  is,  143. 

Conflict  and  conflagration,  25. 

Conflict  between  good  and  evil,  29. 

Conflict  of  the  ages,  168. 

Confucianists,  assembly  of,  203. 

Confusion  of  tongues,  47. 

Congregation,  more  than  a  crowd,  89. 

Conjunctions    of     providence    and 
grace,  135. 

Conquering  campaigns,  82. 

Conquest  by  conversion,  81. 

Conquest  of  other  Churches,  102. 

Conquest  of  the  world.  135,  201. 

Conscience,  15,  62. 

Conscience  an  ally  of  the  gospel,  226. 

Conscience  is  deathless,  52. 

Conscienceless  cowards,  222. 

Consciences  of    men  on   the   side  of 
Christ,  225. 

Conscientiousness,  24. 

Consecrated  common  sense,  132. 

Consequences — of  acts,  144;  of  grace, 
252. 

Conservatism,  period  of  active,  42. 

Constitution  of  the  heavenly  king- 
dom, 216. 

Constitutional  history,  137. 

Consuls  and  commercial  agents,  18. 

Consummation  of  the  kingdom,  248. 

Contemporary  letters,  157. 

Contentment,  13. 

Continental  sabbath,  132. 


260     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 


Controversy,  men  averse  to,  143. 

Conversion — of  a  soul,  217;  of  souls, 
86;  of  the  world,  102, 199;  in  a  play- 
house, 100. 

Conversions,  not  battles,  48. 

Converting  ministrations,  82. 

Corroding  care,  236. 

Corrupted  religion,  219. 

Corrupting  covetousness,  101. 

Coruscations  of  corruption,  34. 

Counsel  and  consolation,  64. 

Countinghouse  and  Church,  101, 

Country,  16. 

Country  children,  schools  for,  140. 

Country  Churches  supply  spiritual- 
ity. 64. 

Covetous  man,  215. 

Covetousness,  232,  236. 

Cowardly  human  heart,  175. 

Cowardly  men,  233. 

Cradle  and  tomb  of  Jesus,  224. 

Creation  of  man,  166. 

Creator  and  created,  247. 

Credentials,  not  contents,  under  con- 
sideration, 149. 

Credit,  confidence,  and  character,  27. 

Creed,  158. 

Creed  and  character,  71. 

Creed  of  creedlessness,  63,  83. 

Creed  of  the  early  Church,  75. 

Creeds  of  negation,  55. 

Creeds,  man-made,  73,  74. 

Creeds,  true  and  false,  67. 

Crescendo  movement,  236. 

Crime,  43. 

Crime  committed  in  the  name  of 
virtue,  230,  231. 

Cringing  spirit  pitiful,  56. 

Crises  of  life,  45. 

Criticism  and  inspiration,  66. 

Criticism,  atmosphere  of,  107. 

Cross — Christ's  credential,  245;  did 
not  surprise  Jesus,  233;  provokes 
to  penitence,  244;  on  Calvary,  25; 
the  only  way  to  the  throne,  232. 

Cross  of  Christ,  245. 

Cross- bearing,  163,  233. 

Crow,  14. 

Crowd,  not  to  be  followed,  113. 

Crucified  messengers,  242. 


Crucified  Saviour  the  center  of  the 

kingdom,  233. 
Crucifixion,  26;  and  resurrection,  231; 

not  tolerated  to-day,  245. 
Cry  of  the  Old  Year,  59. 
Cuba,  beer  and  sobriety  in,  204. 
Cuckoo  sect,  184. 

Culmination  of  Christ's  work,  214. 
Culture — Christian,  24,  165;  divine, 

174;  holy,  16;  of  the  ministry,  209. 
Current  of  life  unbroken  by  death, 

230. 
Current  unrest  is  selfish,  57. 
Cutaneous  treatments,  63. 
Cynicism,  34. 

Daily  bread,  225. 

Daily  duty  the  holiest  thing,  87. 

Dainty  Christianity,  193. 

Dainty  parsonettes,  209. 

Damning  the  good,  41. 

Dancing,  61 ;  and  stealing,  99. 

Dangerous  form  of  worldliness,  219. 

Dangerous  inflammations,  184. 

Darkness,  power  of,  252. 

Date  lines  bend  around  the  manger 
cradle,  154. 

Date  lines  of  the  world,  154. 

David  and  Paul,  faith  of,  78. 

David  had  his  Nathan,  212. 

Dawn  of  the  Messiah's  reign,  248. 

Day  is  spent,  night  at  hand,  229. 

Day  of  God's  wrath,  250. 

Daybreak  everywhere,  178. 

Dead — cannot  define  their  position, 
143;  did  Jesus  rise  from  the,  157; 
if  Jesus  did  not  rise  from  the,  156. 

Dead  children,  longing  for,  118. 

Dead  languages,  112, 

Dead  men's  gifts,  19. 

Death,  156,  230;  in  the  presence  of 
Jesus,  230;  man's  foreknowledge 
of,  248;  of  good  government,  95. 

Death  pang  of  Jesus,  120. 

Debate,  when  out  of  place,  72. 

Debt  of  secular  enterprises  to  Chris- 
tianity, 211. 

Decay  of  respect  for  authority,  71. 

Decay  of  the  Sabbath,  23. 

Decision  Day,  210. 


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Decisive  events,  48. 
Deepest  wants  of  the  soul,  214. 
Defender  of  the  Faith,  148. 
Degeneration,  law  of,  61. 
Deliverance  from  sense  of  guilt,  62. 
Demagogue  in  the  pulpit,  89. 
Demagogues,  24. 
Demands  of  reason,  214. 
Democracy,  52. 

Democracy  alone  cannot  be  safe,  78. 
Denials  and  doubts,  84. 
Denominational  boastfulness,  198. 
Denominational  colleges,  137;  needed, 

144;  have  paid  good  dividends,  144. 
Denominational  mortar,  145. 
Denominationalism,  evil  of,  145. 
Denominations,     unity     of     action 

among,  133. 
Dens  of  lions,  209. 
Depraved  wills,  224. 
Depreciation  of  the  Bible,  68. 
Desire  of  all  nations,  119. 
Desire  to  win  apparent  success,  69. 
Desolation,  abomination  of,  120. 
Destiny,  revelation  of  human,  163. 
Destruction  of  the  Sabbath,  20. 
Deterioration  of  public  mind,  23. 
Devil,  the,  a  saint,  24. 
Devil,  when  the  god  of  men,  227. 
Dewy  tonic,  1  78. 
Diabolic  character,  54. 
Diabolic  greed,  27. 
Diabolic  worker,  61. 
Diabolical  intelligence,  18. 
Diabolism,  17. 
Diet  of  sweetmeats,  233. 
Difficulties  beget  patience,  78. 
Difficulties  help,  139. 
Digging  up  snakes,  144. 
Diligence  required  to  work  for  God, 

114. 
Disagreeable  and  vain  people,  88. 
Disciple  of  Christ — a  brave  soldier, 

237;  has  peace  in  his  heart,  241;  he 

who  is  not  a,  226. 
Disciples  must  not  flee  the  world,  242. 
Disci pleship,  terms  of,  117. 
Discipline,  preachers  should  study, 

124. 
Discord.  25. 


Distressed  faith,  54. 

Diversion,  importance  of,  98. 

Divider.  Church  not  to  be  used  as  a, 
66. 

Divine  attitude  to  sin,  250. 

Divine  chastity  blushed,  224. 

Divine  culture,  174. 

Divine  deeds  of  Jesus,  220. 

Divine  heights  of  usefulness,  173. 

Divine  idiom,  228. 

Divine  nature  rises  above  man's  na- 
ture, 152. 

Divine  tone,  162. 

Divinity  of  Jesus  solution  of  his  hu- 
manity,  156. 

Division  of  the  people,  223. 

Divorces,  lawless,  214. 

Doctrine,  great,  warms  heart,  109. 

Doctrine,  no  division  on,  in  Method- 
ism, 109. 

Doctrines  of  Jesus  are  final,  153. 

Doctrines  of  repentance,  etc.,  199. 

Dogma  of  dirt,  27. 

Domestic  wounds  healed,  217. 

Doom  of  society  leaders,  55. 

Doubt,  age  of,  45. 

Doubt  and  disorder,  32. 

Doubt  as  to  propriety,  144. 

Doubters  of  inspiration,  66. 

Doubtful  diversion,  61. 

Doubting  God,  174. 

Doubts  and  difficulties  removed,  224. 

Doubts,  men  cannot  live  on,  76. 

Doubts  pass,  246. 

Dreaming  people,  133. 

Dreary  and  motiveless  life,  177, 

Dross  of  selfishness,  191. 

Drummers  and  missionaries,  94. 

Drunkenness  among  soldiers,  79. 

Duncan.  James  A.,  advice  to  young 
preachers,  125. 

Duties  to  others,  50. 

Duty — and  its  feasibility,  114;  fideli- 
ty in  the  discharge  of,  87;  heroic 
doing  of,  98;  higher  than  personal 
rights,  112;  of  Christians,  92;  mat- 
ters of  personal  and  national,  175; 
path  of,  13;  to  be  followed,  230. 

Dwelling  place  in  all  generations,  148. 

Dying  in  battle,  80. 


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Dying  is  mere  sleeping,  230. 
Dynasties  fall,  169. 

Earth  must  be  pagan  or  Christian, 
203. 

Earth-born  humanitarianism,  234. 

Easy  conditions,  78. 

Ecclesiastical  establishments,  18b; 
mergers,  87;  self-aggrandizement, 
84. 

Echoes  in  the  Psalms,  113, 

Economy  of  Jesus,  220. 

Educated  world  without  fear,  18. 

Education,  16;  a  Pandora's  box,  184; 
and  amusement,  86;  and  th.e  com- 
mon people,  184;  by  struggling  and 
conquering,  139,  140;  costs  less 
than  ignorance,  187;  higher,  165; 
means  to  an  end,  17;  multiplies 
power,  178;  theories  of,  138. 

Education,  getting  an,  138. 

Educational  instituiion  exists  for 
students,  142. 

Educational  institutions,  16,  31. 

Educational  secularist,  145. 

Educational  simony,  174. 

Educational  swindle,  140. 

Educational  ventures  of  the  State, 
145. 

Educational  work  and  Churches,  101. 

Educators,  failures  of,  44. 

Effect  and  cause,  152. 

Effects  of  Christianity,  159. 

Effects  of  war,  32. 

Effeminate  preacher,  193. 

Efficiency,  35. 

Effortless  ease,  45. 

Egotism,  narrowest  sort  of,  74. 

Egyptian  darkness,  159. 

Elijah— and  Ahab,  212;  and  Baal- 
ism, 51;  questions  halting,  108;  on 
Carmel,  210. 

Eliot,  George,  54. 

Eloquence,  180;  to  a  clown,  176. 

Emblem  of  theology,  63. 

Emory  College,  139. 

Emotion  in  religion,  70. 

End  of  the  earth  is  man,  166. 

Endor,  cave  of,  161 ;  witch  of,  148. 

Enfeebling  speculations,  61. 


English  and  American  Methodists, 
197. 

Enlightenment  is  enriching,  98. 

Enoch,  168,  248. 

Enthusiasm,  age  free  from,  142. 

Episcopal  decision,  124. 

Epistles,  157. 

Epitaph,  perfect,  232. 

Epochal  events,  178. 

Equality  with  God,  154. 

Errands  of  mercy,  178. 

Erratic  theorizings,  201. 

Error,  antiquated,  131. 

Error  willing  to  compromise,  91. 

Essence  of  going  on  to  perfection,  226 

Essence  of  religion,  84. 

Essential  importance  of  human  na- 
ture, 53. 

Eternal  life,  belief  in,  24. 

Eternal  truth,  83. 

Ethical  system  of  prudential  princi- 
ples, 60. 

Ethical  values,  181. 

Eugenics  —  and  regeneration,  53; 
earthly,  49;  processes  of,  47. 

Evangelical  Christianity,  205,  206, 
208;  and  Romanism,  196. 

Evangelical  Churches,  193. 

Evangelical  experiences,  197, 

Evangelical  note,  197. 

Evangelism,  lucrative,  70. 

Evgngelistic  Christianity,  192. 

Evangelistic  nations  of  the  world.  201. 

Evangelizing  the  heathen,  92. 

Events,  decisive,  48. 

Everlasting  life,  153. 

Everyday  duties,  176. 

Evidences  of  Christianity,  149. 

Evil,  archdemon  of,  185. 

Evil  communications,  201. 

Evil  doing  can  promote  no  good 
thing,  69. 

Evil  spirits,  50. 

Evil  to  be  guarded  against,  113. 

Exalting  the  things  of  the  present, 
172. 

Exile  of  Patmos,  162. 

Existence  of  life,  mind,  etc.,  152. 

Exodus  from  Egypt,  189. 


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Extemporaneous  Sermons  and  Lectures 

at  Emory  College,  107. 
Extravagance  of  conviction,  1C8. 
Eye  of  virtue's  seer,  180. 

Fables,  fate  of  men  who  turn  unto, 
219. 

Face  of  nature,  163, 

Face  of  the  Scriptures,  163. 

Face  of  the  world  changed,  102. 

Facts  about  the  Bible,  162. 

Facts,  Christianity  a  religion  of,  157. 

Facts,  men  must  respect,  152. 

Faith,  227;  and  miracles,  217;  a  fer- 
tilizing, 158;  and  righteousness,  27; 
cannot  fail,  199;  delivered  to  the 
saints,  85;  found  amid  difficulties, 
78;  fruit  of,  25;  household  of,  93, 
102;  in  God,  44;  in  goodness,  176; 
loss  of,  180. 

Faith  in  God,  chief  characteristic  of 
founders  of  the  republic,  171. 

Faith  of  Christians  not  vain,  159. 

Faith  reaches  saving  power,  246. 

Faith,  sorrow,  and  reason,  236. 

Faith  sprung  from  seeing  miracles, 
215. 

Faith  triumphs,  227. 

Faith  which  saves,  216. 

Faithful  pastors,  75. 

Faithless  times,  167. 

False  charges,  144. 

False  lights,  34. 

False  pretenses,  getting  congregation 
under,  66. 

False  teachers  not  to  be  followed,  240. 

False  things,  230. 

False  views  of  Christ,  213. 

Falsehood,  157, 

Falsehood,  love  of,  227. 

Fame  of  heroism,  175. 

Families  promote  peace,  74. 

Family  altars,  57. 

Family,  death  of,  57. 

Family  of  God,  93. 

Family,  State,  Church,  100. 

Famine,  how  driven  from  our  doors, 
181,  182. 

Famine  of  hearing  the  words  of  the 
Lord,  148. 


Fanatical  superstitions,  240. 

Far-off  divine  event,  178. 

Fashionable  Churches,  40,  41. 

Fashionable  men  and  women,  55. 

Fatalist  cannot  pray,  51. 

Fate  of  men  who  turn  unto  fables, 
219. 

Fate  of  nations,  how  determined,  249. 

Father  gave  his  Son,  226. 

Fatherhood  and  brotherhood,  202. 

Fatherhood,  conception  of,  247. 

Fatherhood,  divine,  163. 

Fatherhood  of  God,  doctrine  of,  153. 

Father's  business,  177. 

Fear  of  the  world,  245. 

Fear,  the  child  of  selfishness,  227. 

Feast  or  funeral,  Jesus  at  home  at, 
231. 

Fellow  men,  regard  for,  85. 

Fellowship  in  the  sufferings  of  Christ, 
!08. 

Ferguson,  Katy,  established  first 
Sunday  school,  131. 

Fertilizing  faith,  158. 

Fever  of  passion  and  covetousness, 
95. 

Few  men  and  ideas  permanently  af- 
fect us,  111. 

Fidelity  in  the  discharge  of  duty,  87. 

Fidelity,  unfaltering,  26. 

Fifty  young  men  at  work,  139. 

Figures  not  infallible,  136. 

Financing  a  Church  college,  141. 

Find  your  work,  179. 

Finding  fault  witli  Christianity,  34. 

Fire  newly  kindled,  will  smoke,  191. 

First  miracle,  214. 

First  thousand  dollars,  139. 

First-born  of  Heaven,  159. 

Fixed  principles,  41. 

Flag  of  truce,  84. 

Flatterers,  unscrupulous,  19, 

Flock  of  Christ,  246. 

Floods  of  benevolence,  80. 

Flowers  precede  fruit,  135. 

Foe  of  man,  80. 

Foes  of  goodness,  227. 

Following  Christ,  225. 

Force  of  a  life,  how  measured,  181. 

Force  of  argument,  183. 


264     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 


Force  of  arms,  96. 

Foreordination,  idea  of,  93. 

Forgetting  God,  33. 

Formalism  and  sacramentarianism, 
190. 

Fortify  the  border,  99. 

Fortune  inherited,  16. 

Foundation  of  the  Church,  251. 

Founders  of  this  republic,  chief  char- 
acteristic of ,  171. 

Founding  a  Christian  college,  186. 

Frankincense,  224. 

Franklin,  26. 

Franklin,  Benjamin,  archdeacon  of 
selfishness,  108. 

Fratricidal  purpose,  75. 

Fraud  or  hallucination,  158. 

Free  agency,  dangerous  faculty  of, 
151. 

Free  institutions,  65. 

Freedom,  179. 

Freedom  of  conscience,  144. 

Freedom  the  result  of  truth,  179. 

Freezer  frozen,  142. 

French  Revolution,  191. 

Friends  of  the  Sunday  school  are 
legion,  134. 

Friendship  generous,  182. 

Friendship  with  God,  239. 

Frivolity  universal,  176. 

Fruit  preceded  by  flowers,  135. 

Fulfill,  not  destroy,  107. 

Function  of  the  Church,  93. 

Fundamental  principles,  operation  of, 
196. 

Fundamental  truths,  68. 

Fundamental  virtues  come  by  suf- 
fering, 107. 

Fundamentals,  65. 

Fundamentals  of  religion  and  moral- 
ity, 17. 

Funeral  or  feast,  Jesus  at  home  at, 
231. 

Future  holds  nothing  better  than 
Christ,  223. 

Future  of  the  world,  27. 

Future  of  those  who  walk  with  God, 
52. 

Future  punishment,  71. 


Gabriel,  83. 

Galleries,  preachers  who  play  to  the, 
75,  76. 

Gamahel  taught  religion,  129. 

Gangrened  rehgion,  232. 

Garden  of  the  Lord,  188. 

Gardening  cannot  supersede  godli- 
ness, 81. 

Gate  of  hecven,  188. 

Gate  of  repentance,  117. 

Gates,  uses  of,  215. 

Generosity,  deeds  of,  13. 

Generous  friendship,  182. 

Genius,  a  rare  quality,  132. 

Geometry  and  trigonometry  in  Soph- 
omore year,  143. 

Georgia  and  Massachusetts  com- 
pared, 187. 

Georgia's  Educational  Work,  137. 

German  militarists,  23. 

German  rationalism,  77,  85,  132. 

German  science  and  savage  methods, 
98. 

Gethsemane  to  Calvary,  233. 

Getting  an  education,  138. 

Gideon's  three  hundred,  193. 

Gifts,  no  equality  of,  151. 

Gilbert's  visions  and  dreams,  133. 

Glad  to  have  tlie  world,  113. 

Gladstone,  William  E.,  38. 

Glittering  promises,  117. 

Glory  better  than  grace,  241. 

God — allows  men  to  be  free,  52;  and 
mammon,  109;  assuming  the  ex- 
istence of,  152;  hears  cry  of  lamb, 
109;  is  still  ahve,  177;  must  give 
light  to  men,  151;  of  Providence, 
152;  reveals  himself  to  man,  247, 
248;  still  lives,  61;  talks  with  man 
face  to  face,  247;  what  he  is  not, 
160. 

God  bless  you,  165,  166. 

God  could  die,  etc.,  220. 

Godless  education,  positively  dan- 
gerous, 98. 

Godless  homes,  214. 

Godless  people,  84. 

Godless  nations,  84. 

Godlessness,  inflammable,  28. 

Godlessness,  when  the  fashion,  186. 


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Godliness  and  gardening,  81. 

Godliness,  loss  of,  32. 

God's  guidance  of  his  people,  225. 

God's  method,  134. 

Gods  of  the  heathen  world  are  dead, 
148. 

Gold,  frankincense,  and  myrrh,  224. 

Golden  deeds,  175. 

Golden  rule,  176. 

Good-for-nothing  preachers,  126. 

Good  influences,  242. 

Good  men  in  Roman  Church,  130. 

Good  only  can  survive,  56. 

Good  Shepherd,  voice  of,  162. 

Good  things  procurable  by  man,  19. 

Goodness  and  goods,  37. 

Goodness  in  the  modern  world,  245. 

Gospel  only  can  save  people,  70. 

Gospel    preachers    throughout    the 
world,  155. 

Gospel,  simplicity  of,  158. 

Government  is  force,  29. 

Government  issues  decrees,  etc.,  154. 

Government,  purposes  of  our,  19. 

Government  the  outgrowth  of  suf- 
fering, 115. 

Grace  and  glory,  241. 

Grace  is  sufficient,  117. 

Gratitude,  true,  31. 

Grave  of  Jesus,  158. 

Graves  of  patriarchs,  172. 
Graveyard  a  place  of  peace,  68. 
Great  awakening,  198. 
Great  Britain,  23;  and  the  United 

States,  198. 
Great  characters,  108. 
Great  idea,  strongest  of  powers,  133. 
Great  men  of  the  world,  175. 
Great  moral  enterprises,  129. 
Great  motives,  177. 
Great  religious  motives,  72. 
Great  results,  131. 
Great  revival  of  1800,  193,  194. 
Great  Revivals  and  the  Great  Republic, 

189. 
Great  truths,  236. 
Greater  works    await   achievement  § 

173. 
Greatness,  how  measured,  192. 
Greed,  27,  236. 


Greed,  ruthless,  27. 
Greek  and  Latin,  112. 
Grotius,  Hugo,  36. 
Gruel  of  doctrine,  73. 

Habit  of  hatred,  34. 

Habits  of  intemperance,  27. 

"Hail  Mary"  in  a  Protestant  Church, 
69. 

Hallucination,  159;  on  the  part  of  the 
disciples,  158;  or  fraud,  158. 

Halo  cast  by  spirit  of  Jesus,  155. 

Hard  conditions,  78;  amehorated,  36. 

Harvest  and  springtime,  170. 

Hatred,  habit  of,  34. 

"Have  faith  in  God,"  42. 

He  who  abides  in  Christ,  238. 

He  who  crosses  God's  plan,  166. 

He  who  regards  the  poor,  231. 

Head  of  the  Church,  116. 

Heart  of  covetousness,  236. 

Heart  of  infinite  love,  213. 

Heart  of  the  universe,  164. 

Heaven  and  earth  may  pass,  184. 

Heaven,  best  conception  of,  SO. 

Heaven,  gate  of,  188. 

Heaven  is  where  Jesus  is,  236. 

Heaven  of  heavens,  178. 

Heavenly  city  has  gates,  215. 

Heavenly  dialect,  228. 

Heavenly  hills,  35. 

Heavenly  intimacy,  239. 

Heavenly  kingdom,  constitution  of, 
216. 

Hegelians,  228. 

Heights,  supernatural,  163. 

Hell  of  anarchy  on  earth,  71. 

Heretics  and  rationalists  hinder  re- 
ligion, 70. 

Herodotus,  122. 

Heroes  live  forever,  184. 

Heroes  of  faith,  167. 

Heroic  dollars,  118. 

Heroic  man,  44. 

Heroic  unselfishness,  72. 

Heroism,  13,  175;  of  heavenly  origin, 
72;  may  survive,  168;  not  in  vain, 
183;  of  spiritual  life,  221. 

Heroisms,  when  quixotic,  24. 


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Heterogeneous  people  of  the  Colo- 
nies, 191. 

High  ends  of  brotherhood,  how 
served,  151. 

High  Living  and  High  Lives,  165. 

High  schools  feed  colleges,  140. 

Higher  and  primary  education,  140. 

Higher  education,  137,  138;  under 
religious  influences,  146. 

Higher  than  the  highest,  161. 

Highest  heights  of  holiness,  44. 

High-sounding  phrases,  98. 

Highways  of  the  world,  38. 

History — a  divinely  ordered  move- 
ment, 60;  and  the  calendar,  193; 
attests  the  resurrection,  159;  can- 
not be  changed,  218;  decisive  mo- 
ments of,  33;  organized  around  Je- 
sus, 160. 

"History  of  European  Morals,"  159. 

History  of  Sunday  Schools,  129. 

Holiday,  32. 

Holiness — and  humanity,  57;  highest 
heights  of,  44;  in  men,  58;  of  heart, 
conception  of,  153;  of  life,  163; 
personal,  163;  true,  26. 

Holy  days  and  holy  deeds,  244. 

Holy  fellowships,  168. 

Holy  Ghost  has  no  new  revelation, 
240. 

Holy  Spirit  a  living  person,  96. 

Holy  Spirit,  omnipresent,  133. 

Holy  Spirit  talks  to  us,  93. 

Homage  to  the  Babe  of  Bethlehem, 
154. 

Home,  as  emblem  and  symbol,  172. 

Home  needs  protection  from  im- 
morality, 79. 

Home,  the  type  of  heaven,  57. 

Homeless  maker  of  homes,  110. 

Homes  and  churches  benefited  by 
uniform  lessons,  134. 

Homesick  pilgrim,  177. 

Honesty  and  sincerity  of  motives, 
144. 

Honesty  the  best  policy,  108. 

Honorable  leadership,  208. 

Hope  cannot  dream,  etc.,  153. 

Hope  of  heaven,  15. 

Hope  of  the  nation,  195. 


Hope  still  in  God,  95. 

Hopeless  agnosticism,  156. 

Horeb,  rocks  of,  80. 

Horner,  Jackey,  143. 

Horse,  price  of  a,  206,  207. 

Hostilities,  proposition  for,  167. 

Hour  not  yet  come,  225. 

House,  our  Father's,  50. 

Household  of  faith,  93,  102. 

Housetop  howlers,  87. 

How  we  may  forsake  Jesus,  243. 

Human  beings  need  omnipotent 
guide,  46. 

Human  companionships,  113. 

Human  endeavor,  higher  branches  of, 
165. 

Human  mind,  capabilities  of,  44. 

Human  nature,  17. 

Human  peace,  how  promoted,  74. 

Human  perfectibility,  44. 

Human  progress,  area  of,  53. 

Human  redemption,  59. 

Human  rights,  42. 

Human  soul,  place  of  in  God's  econ- 
omy, 111. 

Human  virtue,  63. 

Human  widsom  insufficient,  46. 

Humanitarianism,  54,  234. 

Humanitarians,  111. 

Humanity  and  holiness,  57. 

Humblest  task,  176. 

Humility,  234,  235. 

Hungering  for  Christ,  221. 

Hymns  and  the  revival,  192. 

Hypotheses  on  the  subject  of  God, 
150. 

Hypothesis  on  Great  First  Cause,  152. 

Idea  changes  the  man,  112. 
Idea  of  foreordination,  93. 
Ideal  denominational  institution,  17. 
Ideals  easy  of  conception,  154 
Ideas  rule  the  world,  28. 
Idleness,  178. 

Idleness  and  industry  contrasted,  80. 
If  Christ  be  not  risen,  159. 
If  Christ  did  not  rise,  157. 
If  Jesus  be  not  God,  153. 
If  Jesus  did  not  rise  from  the  dead, 
156. 


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If  Jesus  is  not  God,  156. 
If  religion  should  perish,  95. 
Ignoble  passions  arrayed  against  the 

Son  of  God.  245. 
Ignorance  and  irreligion,  209. 
Ignorance  and  sin,  deep  dishonors  of, 

168. 
Ignorance  costly,  98. 
Ignorance  is  easy,  79,  80. 
Ignorance  of  God,  239. 
Ignorance,  the  badge  of  piety,  186. 
Ignorant  doctors,  77, 
Ignorant  religionist,  145. 
Ignorant  worldliness,  88. 
Ills  of  society,  56. 
Images  of  the  Revelation,  162. 
Immigrant  agent  for  heaven,  80. 
Immigrants,  23. 
Immigration,  effects  of,  183. 
Immoral  God,  belief  in,  151. 
Immoral  use  of  power,  28. 
Immorality,  home  needs  protection 

from,  79. 
Impertinent  paternalism,  145. 
Impossible  to  love  man  and  not  love 

God,  111. 
Impressions,  new  and  right,  167. 
In  the  beginning,  27,  61. 
Inarticulate  religion,  78. 
Incarnate  Son,  251. 
Incarnation,  247. 
Incarnation  and  resurrection,  47, 
Incarnation  of  God,  153. 
Incarnation,  purpose  of,  242. 
Incarnation,  significance  of,  31. 
Incorruptible  are  invincible,  241. 
Increase  of  Sunday  schools  finds  no 

parallel,  134. 
Indecency  exposed,  225. 
Indians  have  a  legend,  139. 
Indispensable  possession,  16. 
Indulgence  in  wrong,  61. 
Industry  and  idleness  contrasted,  80. 
Indwelling  God,  best  possession  of  the 

human  soul,  213. 
Infallible  Church  and  Book,  172. 
Infidelity,  69,  224. 
Infidelity  and  falsity,  134. 
Infidelity  and  iniquity,  233. 
Infidelity,  the  worst,  166. 


Inflexible  Power,  164. 

Influence,  125. 

Influence  of  Jesus,  80. 

Influence  of  the  Church,  91. 

Influences  that  do  us  good,  242. 

Ingratitude  cannot  disgrace,  143. 

Inherent  majesty  about  Jesus,  154. 

Inherited  fortune,  16. 

Inhumanity,  iniquity,  and  immoral- 
ity, 239. 

Iniquity  secretes  infideUty,  233. 

Inn,  no  room  in  the,   50. 

Inn,  room  in  the,  50. 

Innocence  without  weakness,  154. 

Innocent  abroad,  172. 

Innovators  and  agitators,  65. 

Insidious  worldliness,  53. 

Insincerity,  element  of,  62. 

Inspiration,  God  of,  152. 

Inspiration  of  the  Bible,  58. 

Institution  of  the  Sabbath,  22. 

Institution  which  we  call  the  Church, 
158. 

Institutions  of  higher  learning,  birth 
and  growth  of,  145. 

Instructors  and  teachers  of  mankind, 
167. 

Intellect  and  sensibility,  17. 

Intellectual  indolence,  39. 

Intellectual  power  and  religious  use- 
fulness, 144. 

Intemperance  and  licentiousness,  27. 

Intemperance,  habits  of,  27. 

Intercollegiate  athletics,  18. 

International  law,  36. 

Interruptions,  submission  to,  219. 

Intrenched  skepticism,  227. 

Inventors  of  tlie  world,  130. 

Invincible  logic,  conclusion  of,  156. 

Invisible  force,  133. 

Invisible  places  of  the  soul,  50. 

Irreligion  and  ignorance,  209. 

Irreligion  impoverishes  people,  146. 

Is  it  better  to  make  money  than  to  do 
right?  95, 

Isaac,  248. 

Isaac  and  Jacob,  168. 

Iscariot  died  natural  death,  243. 

Isms  and  quibbles,  171,  172. 

Isolation  of  Christ,  120. 


268     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 


Israel  and  the  nations,  249. 

Israel  under  the  wing  of  the  Eternal 

Son,  249. 
Israel's  worship,  249. 
Issue  of  fact,  157. 
Issue  of  foreign  missions,  92. 

Jacob,  248,  249. 

Jacob  and  the  angels,  139. 

Japanese,  15. 

Jests  and  jokers,  age  of,  114. 

Jesus — alone  chose  to  be  born,  59,  60; 
appealed  to  highest  motives,  71;  at 
home  at  funeral  or  feast,  231;  can 
save  lost  soul,  213;  constrains 
world's  date  lines,  154;  did  not 
chide,  219;  economical,  220;  greater 
than  anything  he  did,  69;  helps  us 
bear  our  crosses,  233;  hid  from  un- 
believing world,  223;  homeless 
maker  of  homes,  110;  in  every 
child,  118;  King  of  time,  110;  lord 
of  the  hours,  110;  lived  life  of  inno- 
cence, 154;  mighty  to  save,  224; 
must  go  through  Samaria,  216; 
never  hurried,  35;  of  the  evangel- 
ists, 161;  past,  present,  future,  160; 
rebuked  impatient  disciples,  129; 
risen  from  the  dead,  157;  rose  from 
the  dead,  159;  sent  disciples  as 
lambs,  160;  solitary  in  words  as  in 
character,  110;  spoke  to  all  times, 
155;  why  rejected  by  men,  219. 

Jesus  Christ  and  him  crucified.  111. 

Jesus  lived,  spoke,  etc.,  153. 

Jesus's  love  for  sinners,  223. 

Jewish  God,  158. 

Jewish  race  chosen  to  bring  Messiah, 
111. 

Jewish  rulers  and  the  Sabbath,  218. 

Jews  and  Gentiles  discussed  religion, 
129. 

Job,  star  of  first  magnitude,  107. 

Job's  war  horse,  123. 

John  the  Baptist,  36,  119. 

John  the  Baptist  and  Jesus,  251. 

Jokers,  age  of  jests  and,  114. 

Jonah  and  Nineveh,  206. 

Jonathan's  rod  at  Beth-aven,  165. 

Joseph  filled  the  storehouses,  168. 


Joseph  interpreting  dreams,  181,  182, 

Joshua  and  perfect  obedience,  51. 

Joy  and  hope,  159. 

Joy  in  heaven,  59. 

Joy  of  God,  238. 

Jadaizers,  158. 

Judas.  232. 

Judas  a  suicide,  123. 

Judas  escaped  persecution,  239. 

Judas  in  the  garden,  156. 

Judas  plunges  into  eternal  infamy, 

235. 
Judges  of  men,  180. 
Judgment  bar  of  Christ,  103. 
Jugglery,  clumsy  piece  of,  158. 

Kaleidoscopic  manifestations,  152. 

Key  of  Christian  position,  157. 

Keynote  of  the  gospel,  116. 

Keys  which  open  doors  of  the  king- 
dom, 251. 

King  of  time,  110. 

Kingdom,  248. 

Kingdom  coeval  with  eternity,  247. 

Kingdom  comes  not  with  observation, 
114. 

Kingdom,  Jesus's  manner  of  found- 
ing, 155. 

Kingdom  of  God,  247,  251. 

Kingdom  of  God's  dear  Son,  247,  249, 
252. 

Kingdom  of  God's  Dear  Son,  The,  247. 

Kingdom,  spiritual,  250. 

Kings  and  rulers  must  consult  people, 
167. 

Kings,  tyranny  of,  15. 

Kingswood  School,  97. 

Knight-errantry  among  missionaries, 
92. 

Knowledge,  19,  63. 

Knowledge  and  amusement,  85,  86. 

Knowledge  and  character,  24. 

Knowledge  not  to  be  sought  as  a 
means  of  getting  gold,  174. 

Knowledge,  tree  of,  18. 

Koreans,  15. 

Kultur.  24. 

Labor  and  rest,  173. 
Labor-saving  devices.  22. 


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Labors  of  good  men  must  be  saved, 
217. 

Lady  Huntington  and  Lord  Dart- 
mouth, 89, 

Lamar,  L.  Q.  C,  138. 

Lamb  of  God  slain  by  priests,  231. 

Lambs  among  wolves,  160. 

Lamb's  cry  heard,  109. 

Lambs,  disciples  sent  as,  160. 

Latin  America,  why  backward,  96. 

Latin  and  Greek,  112. 

Law  and  necessity,  26. 

Lawless  divorces,  214. 

Lawlessness,  spirit  of,  43, 

Laws  become  obsolete,  169. 

Laws  of  advisory  character,  71. 

Lawyers  won't  teach  school,  138. 

Lax  teaching,  17. 

Laxness  of  principle,  163. 

Lazy  agnosticism,  68. 

Leading  citizen,  27. 

Learning  is  difficult,  80. 

Lecky,  "History  of  European  Mor- 
als," 159. 

Legend  of  the  Indians,  139. 

Legislature,  cleanest,  137. 

Let  us  pray,  62. 

Let  us  respect  ourselves,  173. 

Letters,  contemporary,  157. 

Liberalism,  22,  27,  55,  195. 

Liberahty,  bragging  about,  116. 

Liberty,  15,  17. 

Liberty  and  life  in  Christ,  51. 

Liberty,  not  license,  101. 

Liberty  of  conscience,  137. 

Licentiousness  among  soldiers,  79. 

Licentiousness  and  intemperance,  27. 

Licentiousness,  output  of,  19. 

Life — a  personally  conducted  jour- 
ney, 236;  and  immortality,  159;  a 
serious  thing,  64;  care  and  control 
of,  246;  everlasting  after  death, 
153;  more  than  labors,  88;  older 
than  death,  114. 

Life  of  Christ  in  individual  souls,  245. 

Life  of  the  Christian,  177. 

Life  void  of  Christian  roots,  238. 

Light,  213. 

Light,  clear  and  certain,  162. 

Light  must  be  given  to  man,  151. 


Limping,  halting  enterprises,  94. 

Lines  of  benevolence.  178. 

Lines  of  cleavage,  223. 

Literature,  production  of  inspiring, 
14. 

Literatures  pass  away,  169. 

Live  truly,  love  divinely,  216. 

Livingstone  lost  in  Africa,  204. 

Local  option  election,  122. 

Locomotion,  gifts  of,  123. 

Loftiest  aspirations,  237. 

Loftiest  spirits,  fellowship  with,  177. 

Lofty  characteristics  of  Christianity, 
159. 

Lofty  thought,  112. 

Loneliness,  241. 

Longing  for  dead  children,  1 18. 

Looking  above  saves  men,  216. 

Lord  Dartmouth  and  Lady  Hunting- 
ton, 89. 

Lord  does  not  tell  his  children  all, 
240. 

Lord  high  captains,  167. 

Lord  of  the  hours,  110. 

Lord's  day,  a  pillar  and  support,  172. 

Lord's  day,  observance  of,  21. 

Loss  of  godliness,  32. 

Lost  day  cannot  be  restored,  218. 

Lost  soul,  Jesus  can  save,  218. 

Lost  souls,  245. 

Love — actively  engaged,  234;  acts  of, 
231;  among  Christ's  friends,  239; 
and  obedience,  237;  is  inventive, 
231;  of  men,  16;  outlasts  knowl- 
edge, 174;  the  fulfilling  of  all  law, 
196. 

Love  to  God,  17. 

Loveless  soul,  232. 

Love's  labor  is  never  lost,  229. 

Lucrative  evangelism,  70. 

Lunch  counter.  Church  not  a,  93. 

Luring  men  into  the  kingdom,  86. 

Lust  and  covetousness.  236. 

Lusts  must  be  crucified,  207. 

Luther  and  Calvin,  189. 

Luxury,  age  of,  67. 

Luxury,  in  this  day  of,  166. 

Lynchers  and  the  law,  43. 

Lynching,  38;  a  crime,  43. 

Lynching  the  law,  94. 


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Macaulay,  26. 

Magna  Charta,  29. 

Mahanaim.  115. 

Making  money  unlawfully,  94. 

Malice  toward  Christ,  226. 

Malignant  minds,  34. 

Malignant  opposition  to  Christ,  245. 

Mammon  and  God,  109. 

Mammon,  worshipers  of,  171. 

Man — a  reasonable  being,  149;  lower 
than  the  angels,  S3;  no  creature 
higher  than,  166;  should  do  his  duty 
each  day,  87;  significant  in  God's 
sight,  59;  the  most  representative 
creature,  247;  the  summit  of  the 
pyramid  of  creation,  247;  tracked 
by  blood  stains,  92;  traveling  to- 
ward doubt,  etc.,  215. 

Man  of  faith  is  blessed,  61,  62. 

Man  of  mighty  motives,  176. 

Man  the  only  creature,  etc.,  248. 

"Man  with  a  book"  looked  for,  151. 

Manger  in  Bethlehem,  25. 

Mania  for  publicity,  82. 

Mankind,  16;  and  morality,  24;  prop- 
er study  of,  247. 

Man-made  creeds,  73,  74. 

Man's  belief  about  Christ,  54. 

Man's  faculty  of  free  agency,  151. 

Man's  first  duty  to  his  generation,  88. 

Man's  nature  below  divine  nature, 
152. 

Mansion  of  God,  237. 

Mark  of  a  growing  mission,  97. 

Marriage,  214. 

Marriage  of  the  Lamb,  245. 

Mars,  to  dethrone,  31. 

Martyrs,  apostles,  etc.,  168. 

Martyrs  burned  at  stake,  68. 

Marvels  attending  the  birth  of  Jesus, 
153. 

Massachusetts  compared  with  Geor- 
gia, 187. 

Masses,  how  to  reach  them,  120,  195. 

Material  universe,  why  created,  58. 

Materialism  and  spiritualism,  223. 

Materialism,  sins  of,  31. 

Matter,  Eternal,  Self- Existent,  152. 

McAuley,  Jerry,  121. 

Means  shaped  to  accomplish  end,  151. 


Measuring  the  force  of  life,  181. 

Mediums,  superstitious  practices  of, 
45,  46. 

Meekness  is  teachableness,  113. 

Melancholy  heirs,  187. 

Meliorist  defined,  53. 

Men — and  their  faith,  227;  away 
from  God,  33 ;  entangled  in  worldly 
positions,  223;  grieve  God,  218; 
how  lost  and  saved,  213;  in  the  act 
of  prayer,  242;  must  respect  facts. 
152;  needed  to-day,  210;  not  like 
potatoes,  49;  of  advanced  thought, 
61;  of  the  world,  184;  prefer  con- 
spicuous movements,  89;  saved  by 
faith,  84;  saved  by  looking  above, 
216;  with  supercalendered  con- 
sciences, 244. 

Men  who  cease  praying,  238. 

Men  who  deny  the  virgin  birth,  222. 

Men  who  have  not  toiled,  62. 

Men  waste  themselves,  178. 

Mental  condiments,  115. 

Mental  incompetence,  119. 

Mercer  University,  141. 

Mercy  seat,  242. 

Mere  sentiment,  78. 

Meretricious  charms,  89. 

Messengers  of  heaven  make  mistake, 
226. 

Messiah  came  through  Jewish  race, 
111. 

Messianic  expectation,  160. 

Messianic  hope,  249. 

Metaphysical  abstractions,  197. 

Methodism  and  Anglo-Saxon  na- 
tions, 198. 

Middle  ground,  227. 

Might,  when  right,  30. 

Mighty  men  rise  at  the  call  of  God, 
200. 

Mighty  to  save,  224. 

Militarism,  springs  of,  31. 

Militarists,  German,  23. 

Miller,  Hugh,  used  time  well,  125. 

Ministering  spirits,  178. 

Ministers  are  ambassadors  of  God, 
89. 

Ministrations  of  the  Church,  145. 

Ministry  called  and  sent,  206. 


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Ministry  dependent  upon  dainties 
cannot  win  victories,  210. 

Miracle,  first,  214, 

Miracle  of  Balaam's  time,  122. 

Missionary  enterprise,  30. 

Missionary  money  raised  by  ped- 
dling, 206. 

Missionary  work  a  domestic  neces- 
sity, 103. 

Missions  not  sustained  by  mercenary 
motives,  207. 

Missions,  opposition  to,  203. 

Mist  in  minds,  malice  in  hearts,  222. 

Mistletoe  growths,  148. 

Mob  law,  37. 

Mobs,  tyranny  of,  15. 

Model  of  all  government,  250. 

Modern  exponents  of  pale-faced  gos- 
pel, 232. 

Modern  progress,  28. 

Modern  world  awakened,  160. 

Modish  mind,  83. 

Modish  piety,  219. 

Mold  in  which  creation  was  cast,  247. 

Monarchic  age,  relics  of,  145. 

Money,  63. 

Money,  stored  power,  19,  20. 

Money,  the  making  of,  14. 

Money-making,  possible  effects  of, 
165. 

Monkey  cannot  talk,  43. 

Monument,  most  imperishable,  16. 

Moody,  195. 

Moral  condition,  228. 

Moral  conduct  of  men.  226. 

Moral  conquests  of  mankind,  53. 

Moral  cowardice,  119. 

Moral  currency,  181. 

Moral  darkness,  222. 

Moral  discomfiture,  237. 

Moral  discovery,  none  since  Jesus, 
110. 

Moral  enterprises,  129. 

Moral  evil  and  the  Church,  91. 

Moral  evil,  not  necessary,  60. 

Moral  faculties — of  a  true  man,  29; 
never  tepid,  226. 

Moral  forces,  60. 

Moral  good  and  moral  evil,  42. 

Moral  gravitation,  61. 


Moral  gravity,  center  of  man's,  221. 

Moral  hopelessness,  44. 

Morallaw,  15,  16,  37,  55. 

Moral  movements,  69. 

Moral  nature  of  mankind,  226. 

Moral  preparedness,  25. 

Moral  progress,  55. 

Moral  reserves,  45. 

Moral  results  of  athletics,  18. 

Moral  truth,  how  taught,  59. 

Moral  weakness,  244. 

Morality  and  power,  40. 

Morality  and  religion,  17. 

Morality  and  spirituality,  78. 

Morality  cannot  survive,  60. 

Moravians  in  Aldersgate  Street,  200. 

Mormonism,  Spiritualism,  Christian 

Science,   148. 
Morning  breaks  upon  us,  225. 
Moses  and  Paul,  54. 
Moses  and  the  ten  plagues,  51. 
Motives  and  character,  71. 
Motives,  great,  177. 
Motives,  lack  of  high,  176. 
Movement  of  God  in  Christ,  236. 
Multiplication  of  laws,  mark  of,  102. 
Mundane  marks,  228. 
Mundane  megalomania,  81. 
Music  has  no  superior,  132. 
Music  of  evangelical  Churches,  192, 

193. 
Myrrh,  224. 

Mystery  of  existence,  152. 
Mystical  union,  214. 
Myths  of  classic  lore.  14. 

Name  of  God,  exclusive  right  to,  229. 

Napoleon  an  immigrant  agent  for 
heaven,  80. 

Napoleon  in  Russia,  78. 

Napoleon's  maxim,  77. 

"Narrow"  and  "broad,"  22. 

Narrow  way  and  strait  gate,  117. 

Nation  and  wickedness,  14. 

Nation,  misfortunes  of  a,  16. 

National  destruction,  27, 

National  life,  forms  and  forces  of,  189. 

National  prosperity,  no  accident,  49. 

Nationalistic  theorizing  of  the  ra- 
tionalists, 249. 


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Nations,  21. 

Nations  closer  together  than  ever, 

167. 
Nations,   fate   of,   how  determined. 

249. 
Nation*  have  learned  war,  165. 
Nations  not  destroyed  by  enemies, 

196. 
Nations,  perils  of,  196. 
Nations,  turned  into  hell,  84. 
Natural  theology,  tests  of,  150. 
Naturalism  in  religion,  48. 
Naturalism  of  Egypt,  51. 
Nature,  analogies  of,  151. 
Nature,  divine  and  human,  152. 
Nature  indicts  iniquity,  239. 
Nature  is  a  unit,  152. 
Nature  of  the  new  birth,  216. 
Nature  the  servant  of  God,  51. 
Nebulous  moral  convictions,  42. 
Necessity  and  law,  26. 
Neglecting  the  Bible,  68. 
Nerveless  preachments,  42. 
Nerves,  overwrought,  24. 
New  birth,  adoption  of  the,  191. 
New  birth  binds  men  together,  41. 
New  birth,  nature  of  the,  216. 
New  converts  more  than  new  theories, 

75. 
Newspaper  Articles,  13. 
Newspaper  Reports  of  Sermons   and 

Addresses,  116. 
Nineveh  and  Jonah,  206. 
No  Church,  no  hope,  101. 
No  particle  of  truth  will  ever  be  lost, 

173. 
Noblest  utterance,  161. 
Nonessentials,  strife  about,  194. 
North  America  reserved  for  British 

colonists,  198. 
North  American  continent,  17. 
Nothing  better  than  Christ,  223. 
Novelists,  playwrights,   and  indecen- 
cy, 225. 
"Now  I  lay  me  down  to  sleep,"  62, 
Nunnally,  Dr.,  141. 

Oak  trees  of  Emory's  campus,  138. 
Obedience,  perfect,  51. 
4pbligation  to  do  right,  26. 


Obscure  service,  men  appointed  toi 
177. 

Observance  of  the  Sabbath,  130. 

Obsolete  piety,  209. 

Obsolete  virtue,  186. 

Obstinate  amiability,  113. 

Obstinate  sins  in  human  hearts,  224. 

Occasions  demanding  genius  are  un- 
usual, 132. 

Ointment,  232. 

Old  books  are  best,  125. 

Omnipotent  energy  in  the  leaven,  130. 

Omnipresent  Holy  Spirit,  133. 

Omniscient  man,  ignorance  of,  110. 

Open  mind,  17. 

Open  mouth,  17. 

Operatic  performances,  69. 

Operation  of  fundamental  principles, 
196. 

Opinion  of  the  world,  113. 

Opinions,  203. 

Opponents  of  foreign  missions,  203. 

Opportunity  for  high  service,  175. 

Opposition  to  Christ,  226,  245. 

Opposition,  walled  cities  of,  201. 

Opulent,  not  many  are  called,  123. 

Orderly  government,  96. 

Ordination  cannot  prove  infallibility, 
150. 

Organized  charities  founded,  194. 

Orient  brought  to  our  doors,  102. 

Origin  of  our  Sabbath,  21. 

Originality  in  thought,  131. 

Orphans'  Home  and  your  boy,  118. 

Orthodox  belief,  54. 

Others,  rights  of  and  duties  to,  50. 

Otherworldliness,  54. 

Ounce  of  experience,  227. 

Overthrow  of  religion,  20. 

Overwrought  nerves,  24. 

Ownership,  15. 

Pagan  world,  160. 

Paganism — Christianity  far  from, 
193;  parables  of,  14;  of  the  first  cen- 
tury, 199;  will  corrupt  mankind, 
203. 

Pain,  the  price  of,  173. 

Pale-faced  gospel,  232. 

Palmistry  of  academic  impostors,  222. 


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Pamphlets  and  Booklets,  96. 

Panaceas,  plague  of,  36. 

Panama  Canal,  102. 

Paradise,  247;  of  fools,  184j  of  peace, 

68;  turned  into  perdition,  18. 
Paradise  Lost,  251. 
Paralyze  consecration,  61. 
Parasites  of  a  dying  religion,  148. 
Parent  and  child,  relations  of,  100. 
Parsimonious  piety,  45. 
Partisans,  183. 

Passions  of  love  and  hate,  226. 
Pass-lvey  and  password,  228. 
Path  of  rectitude,  26. 
Path  of  safety,  52. 

Patience  promotes  perseverance,  78. 
Patriarchs,  prophets,  etc.,  168. 
Patriotism,  16. 
Patriotism  and  piety,  21. 
Patronizing  Christ,  37. 
Paul  and  Moses,  54. 
Paul  of  great  stature,  107. 
Paul  stricken  down,  199. 
Paul's  great  idea.  111. 
Peace  and  righteousness,  27. 
Peace  and  war,  duties  and  sacrifices, 

98. 
Peace,  glory,  and  piety,  25. 
Peace  hath  her  victories,  123. 
Peace  promoted  by  families,  74. 
Peace  universal,  30. 
Peace,  war,  and  salvation,  80. 
Peace  which  passeth  understanding, 

110,236. 
Peaks  of  depression,  248. 
Pearly  gate  and  gate  of  repentance, 

117. 
Peasants  and  coal  miners,  89. 
PecuHarity  of  Methodism,  211. 
Peddling  and  missionary  money,  206. 
Penal  functions  in  divine  government, 

71. 
Peniel,  experiences  at,  249. 
Penitence  of  a  sinner,  59. 
Penitential  tears,  101. 
Penny  philosophy,  108. 
Pentecost,  251. 
People  forgetting  God,  64. 
People,  not  deceived  always,  16^4 

la 


People  who  conform  to  God's  will' 

219. 
People  who  neglect  the  Bible,  68. 
Perdition  and  piety,  28. 
Perfect  love,  227. 
Perfect  obedience,  51. 
Perils  of  nations,  196. 
Perpetual  moisture,  161. 
Perplexing  obstacles,  45. 
Perseverance  and  patience,  78. 
Perseverance  brings  power,  78. 
Person  and  teaching  of  Christ,  222. 
Personal  nistory  and  religion,  157. 
Personal  peculiarities,  62. 
Personal  salvation,  57. 
Personal  Saviour,  138. 
Personality,  the  seat  of  power,  34. 
Peter  and  Paul,  202. 
Peter  at  Pentecost,  210. 
Peter,  James,  and  John  on  Hermon, 

117. 
Peter  of!  his  guard,  243. 
Peter  wept  bitterly,  235. 
Peter's  declaration,   "Thou  art  the 

Christ,"  156. 
Pews  without  congregations,  209. 
Pharisaism,  39. 
Pharisees  and  Sadducees,  223. 
Pharisees  manufactured  religion  for 

the  market,  218. 
Philanthropy,   163;   and   prosperity, 

103. 
Philip  among  the  evangelists,  192. 
Philosophizing  about  prayer,  238. 

Phrases,  high-sounding,  98. 

Physical  results  of  athletics,  18. 

Physicians  and  surgeons,  76,  77. 

Physicians,  when  pastors  to  the  poor, 
97, 

Physics  and  metaphysics,  144. 

Piety  and  peace,  25. 

Piety  and  power,  28. 

Piety  not  unmanly,  65. 

Piety,  progress,  and  perdition,  28. 

Piety,  type  of,  in  the  South,  171. 

Piety  without  penitence,  154. 

Pilate  occupied  fateful  position,  244. 

Pillar  of  cloud  and  of  fire,  170. 

Pimples  on  the  social  system,  90. 

Pipings  of  modern  reformers,  217. 


274     Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler 


Pistol,  long  loaded,  123. 

Pitiable  beyond  expression,  156. 

Pity  and  piety,  33. 

Place  of  peace,  68. 

Plague  of  panaceas,  36. 

Plan  of  salvation,  114. 

Plan  of  the  ages,  178. 

Plants  and  Burbank,  49. 

Plateau  of  peace,  248. 

Platitudes,  175. 

Plato  and  Socrates  taught  religion, 

129. 
Platonists,  228. 
Playing  at  religion,  94, 
Playwrights  and  novelists,  225. 
Pleasure  and  religion,  117. 
Pleasure-seeking,  38. 
Plucky  boy  can  go  to  college,  142. 
Policemen,  29. 
Polished  intelligence,  134. 
Political  hysteria,  24. 
Political  institutions,  power  of,  189. 
Political  liberty,  191. 
Political  power  perishes,  169. 
Political  security,  49. 
Political  world,  65. 
Pomps  and  vanities,  13. 
Poor  people  and  the  Sabbath,  22. 
Popish  traditions  vanish  before  the 

Bible,  135. 
Popular  deception,  131. 
Popular  vice,  219. 
Possession,  indispensable,  16. 
Potatoes  and  piety,  81. 
Potatoes  have  no  will,  49. 
Poultice  of  ignorance,  184. 
Poultice  of  rose  leaves,  193, 
Poverty,  Colquitt  proud  of,  180. 
Power,   29;  and  character,   25;  and 

piety,  28;  divested  of  morality,  40; 

of  God  to  salvation,  91;  immoral 

use   of,   28;    of   darkness,   252;   of 

every  sort,   244;   the  seat  of,  34; 

use  of,  reveals  character,  244. 
Powerful  world,  powerful  religion,  24. 
Powers  unfolded,  220. 
Practical  Studies  in  the  Fourth  Gospel, 

Vol.  I.,  213;  Vol.  II.,  230. 
Praise,  love  of  human,  233. 
Prayer,  37. 


Preacher  God's  prophet,  64. 

Preachers  as  m.nnagers,  64. 

Preachers  made  from  laymen,  126. 

Preachers  with  impoverished  spirit- 
ual life,  67. 

Preachers  who  have  done  harm,  53. 

Preachers  who  play  to  the  galleries, 
75.  76. 

Preaching  and  churches,  purpose  of, 
48. 

Preaching  and  faith  of  Christians, 
159. 

Preaching,  never  practicing,  30. 

Preaching,  when  worthless,  63. 

Precious  privacy,  177. 

Premise  concerning  God's  purpose, 
201. 

Present  and  future,  162. 

Press,  tendency  of  the,  117. 

Presumption,  134. 

Pretended  revelations,  240. 

Pretentious  pulpiteering,  53. 

Prevenient  grace,  220,  240. 

Prevision,  180. 

Prey  of  the  Roman  eagles,  250. 

Pride  wounded,  246. 

Priestcraft  and  choral  monopolies, 
193. 

Priestcraft  in  religion,  190. 

Priests,  all  who  profess  religion,  107. 

Priests  on  Mount  Moriah,  212. 

Primary  schools  and  the  Church,  137. 

Primitive  and  Christian  Sabbath,  248. 

Prince  of  God,  249. 

Prince  of  Peace,  20,  28,  30,  31. 

Principality  in  the  kingdom  of  heav- 
en, 249. 

Principleless  radicalism,  65. 

Principles,  fixed,  41. 

Principles  of  Christianity,  34. 

Principles  of  good  government,  170. 

Principles,  progress  away  from,  20. 

Privilege  of  prayer,  value  of,  77. 

Privileged  classes  called  choirs,  193. 

Problems  of  reconstruction,  97. 

Prodigal  son,  32. 

Prodigious  effects,  157. 

Profession,  choice  of  a,  179. 

Program-makers,  87. 

Progress  away  from  principles,  20. 


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Progress,  perdition,  and  piety,  28. 

Progress  toward  Dark  Ages,  71. 

Progressive  revelation,  83. 

Promises,  glittering,  117. 

Proper  study  of  mankind,  247. 

Property  rights,  42. 

Prophets,  apostles,  and  martyrs,  54. 

Prophets  from  Samuel,  161. 

Prophylactic,  moral,  19. 

Proposition  for  hostilities,  167. 

Proprietor,  Divine,  14,  IS. 

Prosperity  exceeds  philanthropy,  103. 

Protestantism  under  obligation  to 
enlighten  people,  96. 

Providence,  God  of,  152. 

Providence  is  not  obsolete,  96. 

Providence,  unfolding  responsibili- 
ties of,  220. 

Provident  souls,  45. 

Prudential  virtues,  171. 

Psalms  furnish  echoes,  113. 

Pseudo  truth-seekers,  76. 

Psychology  of  religious  experience,  82. 

Public  opinion,  Christianization  of, 
37. 

Public  service,  how  robbed,  178. 

Public  toil,  years  of,  177. 

Publicity,  mania  for,  44. 

Publicomania,  82. 

Puerile  motives,  73. 

Pulpit  a  throne,  182. 

Pulpit  must  be  serious,  64. 

Pulpit  pettifoggers,  77. 

Pulpit  pretenders,  68. 

Pulpiteering,  pretentious,  S3. 

Pulpitism,  yellow,  8S. 

Pulpits  without  preachers,  209. 

Pure  Christianity,  23. 

Pure  in  heart,  239. 

Pure  religion,  tendency  of,  20. 

Puritan  Sabbath,  21. 

Purpose  of  creation  is  spirituality, 
166. 

Purposes  of  our  government,  19. 

Pygmies  in  religion,  73. 

Quarreling  needed,  141. 
Quiet  places  of  life,  43. 

Race  of  man,  how  lifted  up,  60. 
Radiance  of  faith  and  hope,  107. 


Radicalism,  42,  65. 

Raikes,  Robert,  a  revivalist,  130. 

Railroads,  cattle,  fields,  140. 

Rain  and  sunshine,  SI. 

Rapturous  melody,  132. 

Ratiocination,  philosophical,  75. 

Rationalism.  66,  77,  85,  132,  205. 

Rationalism  a  sterile  thing,  67. 

Rationalism,  current,  47. 

Rationalists  and  heretics  hinder  re- 
ligion, 70. 

Rationalists  and  liberalists,  58. 

Rationalists  decrease  the  prophets, 
209. 

Rationalists  in  the  pulpit,  47. 

Raw  material,  18. 

Rayless  gloom,  160. 

Reaching  people,  216. 

Reaching  the  masses,  120. 

Reason — a  God-given  faculty,  149; 
and  atheism,  ISl;  falters  and  fails, 
149;  immortal  memory,  imagina- 
tion, 109;  in  religion,  office  of,  150; 
sorrow,  and  faith,  236. 

Rebuilding  the  world,  98. 

Reckless  pride,  231. 

Reconstruct  the  world,  how  to,  123. 

Reconstructing  the  planet,  86. 

Reconstruction,  problems  of,  97. 

Recreation,  need  of,  99. 

Recreation,  should  be  studied,  99. 

"Red  light"  districts,  cleansing  of, 
217. 

Redeeming  Love,  164. 

Redemptionj  248. 

Redemption  of  mankind,  198. 

Redemption  of  men,  the  keynote  of 
the  gospel,  116. 

Redemption  of  the  nations,  195. 

Rediscovery  of  evangelical  Chris- 
tianity, 194. 

Reeds  shaken  by  the  winds,  161. 

Refinement  and  taste  dependent  upon 
religion,  146. 

Reformation,  the,  a  revival,  189. 

Reformers — modern,  35;  of  light- 
weight variety,  86;  sent  to  first 
principles,  107;  work  from  wrong 
end,  90. 

Reforms  and  reformer's^  50.. 


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Regard  for  fellow  men,  85. 

Regenics,  heavenly,  49. 

Reign  of  the  Spirit,  251. 

Rejoicings,  121. 

Religion — and  epistles,  157;  and  mo- 
rality, fundamentals  of,  17;  and 
philanthropy,  33;  and  pleasures, 
117;  concentrated,  not  narrowed, 
111;  when  conquered,  221;  fire- 
proof, 28;  in  the  United  States,  21; 
insincere,  if  willing  to  divide  the 
world,  207;  intolerant,  208;  of 
Christ  defined,  70;  need  of,  99; 
overthrow  of,  20;  promotes  spirit 
of  freedom,  51;  without  morality, 
63;  where  found,  214. 

Religionless  land,  21. 

Religionless  nation  cannot  stand,  211. 

Religious  commonwealths,  190. 

Religious  discussions,  129. 

Religious  duty,  18. 

Religious  educational  institutions, 
138. 

Religious  labor,  58. 

Religious  leaders,  201. 

Religious  magnitude,  69. 

Religious  movements  led  by  men  of 
faith,  210,  211. 

Remorseful  clouds,  235. 

Renewed  spiritual  life,  190. 

Renovating  human  relations,  84. 

Renown,  the  road  to,  13. 

Repentance,  baptism  of,  36. 

Repentance,  gate  of,  117. 

Repentance  scarce,  64. 

Reprisals  of  God,  218. 

Republic,  life  of,  57. 

Republic,  no  enduring,  without  Chris- 
tianity, 172. 

Resign,  Methodist  preacher  can't, 
123. 

Resolutions,  passed  and  forgotten, 
131 

Respect  for  authority,  decay  of,  71. 

Respect  for  others,  74. 

Respectable  people  of  Georgia,  143. 

Responsibility,  limit  of  our,  219,  220. 

Rest  and  labor,  173. 

Rest  and  worship.  Sabbath  for,  22. 


Results  of  seeking  to  do  God's  will, 
56. 

Results  on  the  side  of  system,  135. 

Resurrection,  21;  and  ascension,  250; 
and  incarnation,  47;  credible,  157, 
158;  if  cannot  be  established,  156; 
of  Jesus,  27;  of  the  body,  153;  the 
central  axiom  of  faith,  157;  the 
cure  of  the  world's  woe,  114;  un- 
deniable, 157. 

Retreating  to  solitude,  108. 

Revealing  God  to  men,  44. 

Revelation — an  inspired  book,  109 
antecedent,  probability  of,  150 
begins  where  reason  falters,  149 
committed  to  writing,  152;  ends  of 
defeated  by  method,  151;  given  to 
important  knowledge,  149;  given 
to  some  in  trust,  151;  inherited 
from  ages  past,  148;  possession  of 
by  man,  163;  power  of,  246. 

Revelation  of  God,  33,  230. 

Revelation  of  the  supernatural,  163. 

Reverence  for  authority  of  the  Bible, 
171. 

Revival  Church,  a  singing  Church, 
211. 

Revival  of  religion,  26,  217. 

Revival  of  the  old  religion  needed, 
201. 

Revival  of  1800,  193,  194. 

Revivalism,  192. 

Revivalistic  religion,  189. 

Revivalists  of  the  world,  130. 

Revolution  needed,  141. 

Revolutionary  agitators,  65. 

Rich  and  poor  meet  together,  66. 

Rich  dying  too  rich,  98. 

Rich  men,  etc.,  187. 

Riches,  tendency  of,  20. 

Ride  on,  O  Thou  Kingly  Son  of  God, 
251. 

Right  always  expedient,  79. 

Right  and  wrong,  41. 

Right  in  the  presence  of  wrong,  166. 

Right  only  is  practicable,  59. 

Right  use  of  time,  125. 

Right,  when  feasible,  79. 

Righteousness  and  truth,  63. 


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Righteousness — nothing  better  than, 

169;  and  faith,  27;  Jesus  perfect  in, 

155;  reign  of,  29. 
Rights  and  duties,  51. 
Riotous  rationaHsm,  148. 
Riots  and  routs,  15. 
Rise  of  Methodism,  etc.,  199. 
Ritualism,  205. 

Ritualism  and  rationalism,  196,  223. 
Ritualistic  Christianity,  192. 
Rituals  and  robes,  190. 
River  of  life,  54. 
Robes  and  rituals,  190. 
Rockets  sent  up,  54. 
Roman  Church,  good  men  in,  130. 
Romanism  withholds  the  Bible,  96. 
Romanists  here  and  abroad,  196. 
Rome  the  embodiment  of  force,  etc., 

250. 
Romish   tradition   and   superstition, 

132. 
Room  in  the  inn,  50. 
Routs  and  riots,  15. 
Royalty  visible  in  Jesus,  154. 
Ruin,  when  men  run  to,  85. 
Rule  of  the  coach,  ruin  of  the  college, 

97. 
Rural  people  are  a  sad  people,  187. 
Russia,  Napoleon  in,  78. 
Ruthless  greed,  27. 
Ruthless  wrong  worse  than  war,  29. 

Sabbath — cannot  be  spared,  95; 
Christian  and  Jewish,  21;  Conti- 
nental, 132;  decay  of,  23;  destruc- 
tion of,  20;  for  rest  and  worship,  22; 
made  for  man,  218;  made  over-sa- 
cred, 218;  observance,  95;  origin  of 
our,  21;  regard  for,  in  the  South, 
172;  world's  first,  166. 

Sabbath  day,  profanation  of,  32,  33. 

Sabbathless  city,  20. 

Sabbathless  land,  21. 

Sabbathless  nation,  84. 

Sabbathlessness,  24. 

Sabbatism,  248. 

Sacramentarianism  and  formalism, 
190. 

Sacred  books  and  epistles,  157. 

Sacri.lce  for  Clirist.  107, 


Sacrifice  self  to  save  others,  113. 

Sacrificial  lambs,  231. 

Sacrificial  love,  233. 

Sad  to  see  love  die,  109. 

Sadduceesand  Pharisees,  223;  religion 
of,  70. 

Sadness,  touch  of  in  life  of  a  Chris- 
tian, 177. 

St.  Paul  and  the  resurrection,  157. 

St.  Paul  resists  opponents,  157. 

Saintliness  promoted  by  sufferings, 
218. 

Salacious  shows,  19. 

Salvation — and  life,  80;  by  character, 
209;  by  syndicate,  81;  in  the  name 
of  Jesus,  83;  of  Christ  is  satisfying, 
62;  of  our  country,  189;  plan  of, 
114;  to  those  who  believe,  91. 

Samaria,  Jesus  in,  216. 

Samuel  in  Peter's  discourse,  161. 

Sanctification,  a  Methodist  doctrine, 
211. 

Sanctification  cannot  prove  infalli- 
bility, 150. 

Sanctified  industry,  132. 

Sassafras  bush,  49. 

Satan  enters  into  Judas,  235. 

Saul,  161. 

Saul,  a  king  of  inches,  186. 

Saul  and  the  Witch  of  Endor,  45. 

Saul  of  Tarsus — conversion  of,  49;  a 
convert,  158. 

Saved  by  grace,  27. 

Saving  faith,  195. 

Saving  salt,  60. 

Scandalous  abuse,  143. 

School  must  not  be  unchristian,  146. 

Schoolhouses,  187. 

Schools — for  country  children,  140; 
founding  of,  97;  great  theme  of 
ancient,  130;  how  financed  and 
manned,  145;  indispensable,  97;  of 
the  Church,  185. 

Science,  208,  209. 

Science  and  the  Bible,  162. 

Scribes  and  Sadducees,  77. 

Scriptures,  quoted  by  Jesus,  114. 

Scruples  and  sin,  23. 

Seamless  as  the  Saviour's  robe,  179. 

Seamless  robe,  223. 


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Seat  of  power,  34. 

Secrecy  of  cabinet  meetings,  124. 

Secret  sin,  235,  242. 

Sectarian  pride,  198. 

Sectional  passion,  171. 

Secularism  in  education,  79. 

Secularism,  school  system  saved  from, 

185. 
Secularization  in  education,  40. 
Security  of  civilization,  28. 
Seducing  world,  243. 
Seek  God,  not  religion,  48. 
Seeking  Christ,  220. 
Seeking  soul  never  hid  from  Jesus, 

214. 
Self-centered  Churches,  39. 
Self-denial  and  cross  bearing,  117. 
Self-indulgence — and  self-denial,  112; 

love  of,  22;  the  law  of  death,  13, 
Self-made  man,  181. 
Self-pity  a  substitute  for  penitence, 

64. 
Self-pity,  effects  of,  58,  59. 
Self-sacrifice,  13,  183. 
Self-sacrifice  never  fails,  169. 
Selfish  man  not  to  be  followed,  174. 
Selfish  vanity,  175. 
Selfish  zeal,  68. 

Selfishness  and  self-sacrifice,  207. 
Selfishness,  archdeacon  of,  108. 
Selfishness  makes  sensuality,  122. 
Selling  to  give,  118. 
Senators,     old  -  fashioned    Southern, 

181. 
Sensationalism  not  the  power  of  God, 

70. 
Sensationalists,  24. 
Sensationalists,  why  pastors  engage, 

70. 
Sense  and  time,  177. 
Senseless  saying,  31. 
Sensibility  and  intellect,  17. 
Sensibility  and  selfishness,  122. 
Sensible  men  pray,  65. 
Sentimental  gush,  42. 
Sermon  on  the  Mount,  29,  73,  161, 

216. 
Sermons,  ancient  pieces  called,  94. 
Sermons  which  blight  souls,  84. 
Serpent  of  doubt,  84. 


Service,  88;  highest,  246;  life  of,  56. 

Shadow  of  the  cross,  155. 

Shallow  men,  35. 

Shallow  motives,  72. 

Shepherd  of  the  sheep,  246. 

Shepherd,  voice  of  the  good,  162. 

Shocks  of  God's  wrath,  107. 

Shows,  salacious,  19. 

Sickness  and  death  of  little  children, 
218. 

Sideshows  and  vaudeville,  86. 

Simony,  185. 

Simple  life,  16. 

Simplicity  of  the  gospel,  158. 

Sin,  246;  and  death  easy  of  attain- 
ment, 80;  and  our  scruples,  23;  and 
redemption,  248;  and  suffering,  90, 
91;  antagonism  to,  250;  begins  in 
selfishness,  243;  how  to  be  rid  of, 
15;  of  doubting,  234;  of  unbelief, 
233;  runs  its  course  swiftly,  235; 
strife,  war,  wickedness,  31;  worse 
than  death,  26. 

Sinai  and  Calvary,  God  of,  101. 

Sincere  soul  seeking  God,  48. 

Sinfulness  plentiful,  64. 

Sinners,  escape  for,  250. 

Skepticism  and  superstition,  107,  223. 

Skepticism,  intrenched,  227. 

Skepticism  promoted,  77. 

Skepticism  which  despairs  of  virtue, 
166. 

Slaves  of  time,  221. 

Sleeping,  dying  is  mere,  230. 

Slums  of  sin,  120. 

Small  compliment,  143. 

Smoke  and  fire,  191. 

Snakes — digging  up,  144;  extirpating, 
15. 

Social  aims  worth  fighting  for,  39. 

Social  disaster,  27. 

Social  eruptions,  63. 

Social  institutions,  90. 

Social  Pharisaism,  176. 

Social  reforms,  Christ  as  Leader  of, 
214. 

Social  salvation,  57. 

Social  service,  56,  77. 

Socialism,  196. 

Society  leaders,  destiny  of,  55. 


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Sociologists,  36. 

Sodom,  211. 

Soldier  in  France,  25. 

Solidarity  of  evil,  55. 

Solitary  in  families,  50. 

Solitude,  retreating  to,  108. 

Solomon,  building  the  temple,  etc., 

165. 
Solomon  had  no  prophet,  212. 
Solution  of  questions  concerning  life 

and  immortality,  241. 
Son  of  God,  brother  of  man,  247. 
Sons  of  God,  155. 
Sophomores,  taxidermy  on,  143. 
Sorrowful,  the,  like  sad  birds,  113. 
Sorrows,  Man  of,  31. 
Soul,  lost,  Jesus  can  save,  218. 
Soul  of  man  controls  circumstances, 

83. 
Soul,  place  of  in  God's  economy,  111. 
Soul  which  finds  not  God,  214. 
Soul  winner  goes  where  most  needed, 

216. 
Soul  winners,  wages  of,  217. 
Souls,  subjects  of  conversion,  86. 
Soul's  supreme   object   of  affection, 

237. 
Souls,  taking  departure  from  God,  75. 
Souls  that  hunger  for  God,  48. 
Souls,  why  lost,  245. 
Source  and  strength  of  high  motives, 

177. 
South  American  continent,  17. 
South,  Church  members  in  the,  171. 
South,   rich,  behind   other   sections, 

103. 
South,  the  home  of  pure  American- 
ism, 186. 
Spencerians,  228. 
Spirit  in  which  Jesus  toiled,  155. 
Spirit  of  a  Christian,  243. 
Spirit  of  civilization,  112. 
Spirits  of  just  men  made  perfect,  166. 
Spiritual  blindness,  244. 
Spiritual  character,  59,  209. 
Spiritual  culture  of  a  human  soul,  238. 
Spiritual  energy,  53. 
Spiritual  era,  167;  promise  of,  167. 
Spiritual  excellence,  44. 


Spiritual  forces  and  results,  67. 

Spiritual  kingdom,  250. 

Spiritual  replenishment,  65. 

Spiritual  specialist,  110. 

Spiritual  world,  Christ  in  touch  with, 

115. 
Spiritualism,   158;   and   materialism, 

223. 
Spiritualism,   Mormonism,  Christian 

Science,  148. 
Spiritualists  and  spiritualism,  230. 
Spirituality  and  catholicity,  102. 
Spirituality  and  moral  reformations, 

33. 
Spirituality  of  the  Church,  101, 
Springs  of  life,  when  dried  up,  216. 
Springtime  and  harvest,  170. 
Stage  plays,  law  of,  99. 
Stagnant  stuff,  19. 
Standard  of  average  life,  52. 
State  and  Union,  183. 
State  appropriations  for  education, 

138. 
State  cannot  know  religion,  144. 
State,  for  men,  16. 

State  has  no  right  to  .establish  uni- 
versities, 146. 
State  support   makes  cossets  out  of 

universities,  147. 
State  universities  are  luxury  of  the 

rich,  146. 
States     furnish     money     to     make 

schools,  145. 
States  rise  and  fall,  186. 
Statistics — most  recent,   147;   useful 

and  desirable,  136. 
Stealing,  dancing,  and  theatergoing, 

99. 
Steam    engine    and    the    industrial 

world,  193. 
Stephen  and  Luke,  194. 
Strain  unceasing,  24. 
Strength  of  character,  33. 
Strength  of  Christ,  224. 
Strength  of  the  discussion,  149. 
Strife  about  nonessentials,  194. 
Strife  over  money,  208. 
Strikes  and  lockouts,  66. 
Strong  living,  thinking,  working,  177. 
Sublimity  of  character,  etc.,  176. 


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Submission  to  interruptions,  219. 

Subtle  vanity,  88. 

Success,  blind  worship  of,  70. 

Suffer  little  children,  129. 

Suffering  and  government,  115. 

Suffering,  vicarious,  251. 

Suicide  by  greed,  27. 

Suicides,  36. 

Sun  of  Righteousness,  215. 

Sunday  rest,  loss  of,  22. 

Sunday  school — a  thing  of  life,  133; 
an  underground  stream,  129;  and 
perfection,  135;  first  established, 
131;  friends  of  the,  134;  germ,  129; 
no  predecessor  for  a  model,  129; 
result  of  contributions  from  every 
age,  129;  the  first  in  New  York,  131. 

Sunday  school  unions,  133. 

Sunlight,  uses  of,  228. 

Supercalendered  consciences,  244. 

Superficial  sentiment,  35. 

Superhuman  holiness  of  Jesus,  219. 

Superhuman  purity  without  super- 
human power,  154. 

Superhuman  task,  160. 

Supernatural  and  supramundane 
forces,  116. 

Supernatural  book,  152. 

Supernatural  element  in  religion,  47. 

Supernatural  gifts,  151. 

Supernatural  heights,  163. 

Supernatural,  revelation  of,  163. 

Superstition,  219;  age  of,  45;  prefer- 
able to  skepticism,  107. 

Superstitions,  fanatical,  240. 

Supplanter,  249. 

Supramundane  living,  53. 

Supremacy  and  finality  of  Christ,  241. 

Supremacy  of  Christ,  241. 

Supreme  question  in  Christianity, 
213. 

Survival  of  the  fittest,  law  of,  100. 

Sweetmeats,  diet  of,  233. 

Sychar,  217. 

Symbol  of  dogma,  63. 

Systems,  35. 

Taking  money  unlawfully,  94. 
Taking  the  world  for  Christ,  207. 
Task  made  easier,  182. 


Taste  and  refinement  dependent  upon 

religion,  146. 
Tattling  spirits,  230. 
Taxation  of  the  poor,  146. 
Taxidermy  on  Sophomores,  143. 
Teachableness,  113. 
Teachers,  soldiers,  policemen,  187. 
Teaching,  preaching,  and  discipline, 

124. 
Tears,  235;  penitential,  101. 
Temptation,  220. 
Tempters  who  destroy  men,  243. 
Ten  Commandments,  29,  161. 
Tendency  of  the  press,  117. 
Tests  of  natural  theology,  150. 
Textual  troubles,  125. 
Theater  as  a  teacher  of  morals,  100. 
Theater,  the  Bible  against,  100. 
Theatergoers  in  a  losing  cause,  100. 
Theatergoing  and  cannibalism,  99. 
Theatergoing,  dancing,  and  stealing, 

99. 
Theatric  manhood,  175. 
Theologians,  61. 
Theological  gypsies,  222. 
Theories,  formulation  of  new,  180. 
Theories  of  education,  138. 
Think  the  thoughts  of  God,  162. 
Thorn  in  the  flesh,  117. 
"Thou  art  the  Christ,"  156. 
Thought,  originality  in,  131. 
Thoughts  of  God,  162. 
Thousand,    accumulating    the    first, 

139. 
Throne  of  God,  54. 
Throw  open  your  hearts,  178. 
Time  and  place  in  which  we  live,  175. 
Time  and  sense,  177. 
Time  for  a  new  crusade,  168. 
Tinker  of  Bedford  jail,  181. 
Toil,  22. 

Tomb  and  cradle  of  Jesus,  224. 
Ton  of  theory,  227. 
Tones  of  righteousness,  5-2. 
Tongue  and  mind,  112. 
Tongues  of  fire,  125. 
Too  many  meetings,  97. 
Tools  of  scholarship,  165. 
Touch  of  sadness,  177. 
Touch  of  the  cross,  effect  of,  80. 


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Trade  winds  in  God's  hands,  101. 

Tragedy  of  Calvary,  250. 

Trained  minds  imperatively  needed, 
98. 

Transfiguration  scene,  117. 

Transgressor,  way  of  the,  91. 

Treason  to  God,  95. 

Treasure  in  heaven,  20. 

Treasure  untold,  19. 

Tree  of  knowledge,  18. 

Trial  of  the  Saviour,  244. 

Tribulation  worketh  patience,  107. 

Trigonometry  and  geometry  in  Sopho- 
more year,  143. 

Trivial  pleasures,  13. 

Truce,  flag  of,  84. 

True  Christians,  duties  of,  242. 

True  disciple,  life  of  a,  238. 

True  God,  160. 

True  gratitude,  31. 

True  man  called  to  war,  171. 

True  man  is  neither  pessimist  nor 
optimist,  53. 

True  religion,  43;  reveals  the  true 
God,  91. 

True  servant  goes  where  God  needs 
him,  217. 

Truer  than  the  truest,  161. 

Truth — and  righteousness,  63;  as  it  is 
in  Jesus,  226,  240;  can  make  no  con- 
cessions, 91;  conquers,  167;  enno- 
bled, 180;  great  body  of,  158; 
known  by  revelation,  75;  lack  of, 
227;  may  be  suppressed,  130;  no 
new,  107;  religious,  153;  shall 
make  us  free,  179;  worth  preach- 
ing, 210. 

Truths — blood-stained,  108;  ultimate, 
153,  199. 

Tybee  and  Rabun  Gap,  139. 

Type  of  men  needed  in  city  Churches, 
210. 

Typographical  error,  121. 

Tyranny  of  kings  and  of  mobs,  15. 

Ultimate  truths,  153,  199. 
Unanswerable  arguments,  75. 
Unavoidable  Christ,  244. 
Unavoidable  God,  48. 
Unbelief  in  Jesus,  sin  of,  233. 


Unbelieving  vvorld.  Jesus  hid  from, 
223. 

Unchristian  colleges,  184. 

Unchristian  forces,  81. 

Unclean  birds,  99. 

Underground  stream,  the  Sunday 
school,  129. 

Undertaking  establishments,  pro- 
moters of,  77. 

Undeveloped  resources,  18. 

Unearthly  forces  of  grace,  53. 

Unearthly  love,  239. 

Unearthly  tones  of  the  divine  voice, 
153. 

Unearthly  voice,  162. 

Unexpected  situations,  difficulties  of, 
45. 

Unfinished  task  of  faithful  servant, 
229. 

Uniform  lesson  system,  133. 

Unifying  of  English-speaking  race, 
195. 

Union  created  by  the  Constitution, 
183. 

Union  of  the  Creator  and  the  cre- 
ated, 247. 

United  States  greatest  missionary  na- 
tion, 65. 

United  States,  the  teaching  nation, 
24. 

Unity  for  which  Christ  prays,  242. 

Unity  of  heart  and  action,  develop- 
ment of,  133. 

Unity  of  spirit,  197. 

Unity  of  spiritual  life,  87,  88. 

Universal  and  everlasting  kingdom, 
155. 

Universal  frivolity,  176. 

Universal  kingdom,  204. 

Universal  peace,  28. 

Universal  redemption,  203. 

Universe,  heart  of,  164. 

Universe,  implication  of,  152. 

Universities,  18. 

Universities  must  be  strong,  20. 

Universities,  too  poor,  98. 

University  of  Georgia,  142. 

Unloving  soul,  a  sterile  soul,  239. 

Unmiraculous  facts  of  Jesus 's  life, 
154. 


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Unparalleled  opportunity,  165. 
Unparalleled  wealth  and  evangelical 

Cliristianity,  205. 
Unpersuasive  dogmas,  190. 
Unpopular  God  and  Church,  34. 
Unprecedented  wealth,  165. 
Unreasonable  use  of  reason,  149. 
Unregenerate  intellect,  17. 
Unscrupulous  flatterers,  19. 
Unspiritual  standards    of  a    carnal 

world,  234. 
Unsuspected  weaknesses,  235. 
Unthinking  wealthy  men,  101. 
Upper  world,  powers  of,  60. 
Urban  Christianity  cannot  perpetuate 

itself,  64. 
Use  of  power  reveals  character,  244. 
Useless  life,  238. 

Vain  preaching  and  faith,  82. 

Value  of  letters  as  historical  docu- 
ments, 157. 

Vanishing  quantity,  Christ  not  a, 
236,  237. 

Vanity,  19. 

Vaudeville  and  sideshows,  86. 

Vicarious  suffering,  251. 

Vice — exhibition  of,  19;  segregated, 
15;  young  warned  against,  19. 

Victories  of  ignoble  greatness,  171. 

Victor's  crown,  109. 

Victory — Jesus  confident  of,  155; 
ultimate,  22. 

Victuals  and  virtue,  37. 

Vilest  wickedness,  243. 

Viper  farm,  15. 

Virginia,  University  of,  138. 

Virgins,  foolish,  45. 

Virile  religion,  73. 

Virtue  and  victuals,  37. 

Virtue  won  by  struggle,  63. 

Virtues,  active  and  passive,  154. 

Virtues,  emulation  of,  16. 

Virtuous  soul  always  victorious,  241. 

Virus — deadly,  232;  of  asps,  193;  of 
vindictiveness,  191. 

Visions  and  dreams,  133. 

Visions  for  the  virtuous,  239. 

Vocations,  166. 

Voice — divine,  cannot  be  mimicked, 


153;  how  known,  228;  of  the  Book, 

162;  of  the  Good  Shepherd,   162; 

of  Jesus,  like  that  of  love,  155. 
Volcano   heaving   lava,   smoke,   and 

flame.  111. 
Vulgarity,  176. 

Wage  earners  and  the  Sabbath,  22. 

Wages  of  soul  winners,  217. 

Walking  alone,  walking  with  God, 
176. 

War,  185;  and  peace,  duties  and  sac- 
rifices, 98;  how  to  end,  28;  na- 
tions have  learned,  165;  people 
must  be  consulted  concerning,  167; 
true  man  called  to  state  of,  171. 

War  horse,  Job's,  123. 

War-time  preaching,  63. 

Warm  consecration,  186. 

Wars  and  rumors  of  wars,  40. 

Washington,  London,  etc.,  167. 

Water  compared  with  life,  54. 

Water  transformed  into  a  higher  ele- 
ment, 215. 

Waterless  plains,  35. 

Watson's  "Institutes,"  125. 

Watt  and  the  steam  engine,  193. 

Way  of  righteousness,  52. 

Way  of  the  transgressor,  91. 

We  must  accept  or  reject  Jesus  Christ, 
225. 

Weak  men  may  accumulate  strength, 
125. 

Weakness  of  a  cowardly  conserva- 
tism, 200. 

Wealth,  14;  how  to  use,  103;  must  be 
heroic,  13;  of  the  world,  205. 

Wealthy  people  cry  "hard  times," 
141. 

Weary  and  heavy-laden,  31. 

Welfare  of  the  whole  country,  171. 

Welfare  of  the  world,  65. 

Welsh,  the  Bereans  of  our  time,  133. 

Wesley  and  Christian  experience,  41. 

Wesley  and  His  Work;  or,  Methodism 
and  Missions,  197. 

Wesley  and  the  Moravians,  200. 

Wesley  built  according  to  God's  plan, 
200. 

Wesley,  John,  conversion  of,  49. 


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Wesley  on  riches,  20. 

Wesleyan  Revival,  &9,  192,  198,  201. 

Wesley's  devotion  to  holiness,  200. 

Wesley's  parish,  195. 

Wesley's  work,  influence  of,  198. 

What  men  think  of  Christ,  228. 

What  sign  showest  thou?  215. 

Whimsical  childishness,  135. 

Whitefield's  doctrines  and  preaching, 

190,  198,  199. 
Wliom  Christ  cannot  cleanse,  235. 
Why  men  fight  Christianity,  244. 
Why  men  reject  Jesus,  219. 
Why  souls  are  lost,  245. 
Wicked  ignorance  of  God,  239. 
Wickedness,  overwise,  14. 
Widow  and  orphan,  118. 
Will  of  the  people  should  be  respected, 

145, 
Wilson,  President,  26. 
Wit  in  the  theater,  99. 
Witch  of  Endor,  148. 
Without  God,  without  hope,  36,  212. 
Wolves  and  lambs,  160. 
Woman  taken  in  adultery,  224. 
Words  and  language  of  Jesus,  54. 
Words,  simple,  when  in  earnest,  125. 
Work,  highest  man  can  do,  178,  179. 
Work  of  a  true  man,  God  perfects, 

114. 
Work  of  the  world,  25. 
Work,  our,  will  not  be  finished,  173. 
World  churches,  88. 
World  governed  supernaturally,  27. 
World,  high-powered,  20. 
World,  highways  of  the,  38. 
"World"  in  Romans  xii.  2,  32. 
World  made  for  people,  140. 
World  movement,  87. 
World  must  be  Christian,  59. 


World  must  be  Christianized,  93. 
World  needs  you,  but  can  spare,  165. 
World  redeemed  by  regeneration,  53. 
World  safe  for  democracy,  52. 
World  war  made  us  rich,  122. 
Worldly  ignorance,  88. 
Worldly  motive  worries  us,  110. 
Worldly  preacher,  63. 
Worldly  preaching,  72. 
Worldly  wisdom,  71,  108. 
World's  date  lines,  154. 
World's  first  Sabbath,  166. 
World's  history,  160. 
Worship  as  a  means  of  rest,  38. 
Worship  defeated   by  operatic  per- 
formances, 69. 
Worship,  influence  of  daily,  82. 
Worshipers  of  Mammon,  171. 
Worshipful  are  merciful,  36. 
Worth  of  a  man,  179. 
Worthiness,  want  of,  175. 
Wounded  pride,  246. 
Wrath  against  sin,  223. 
V/rath,  day  of  God's,  250. 
Wrong,  14. 

Wrong-doers,  sympathy  between,  55. 
Wrong,  forms  of,  gregarious,  55. 
Wrong,  iniquitous,  79. 
Wrong  things  condoned  by  some,  79. 

Yearning  of  the  human  heart,  85. 

Years  of  public  toil,  177. 

Yellow  journalism,  85. 

Young  men  trying  impossible  task, 

222. 
Young  warned  against  vice,  19. 
Youth  and  the  unfortunate,  113. 
Youth,  beauty  of,  179. 

ZACCHffiUS,  121. 


TEXTUAL    INDEX, 


PREPARED  BY   CURTIS  B.    HALEY. 


Old  Testament. 

Genesis  i.  1 27 

Genesis  v.  22 248 

Genesis  xii.  1 225 

Genesis  xiii.  8 167 

Genesis  xxxii.  2 115 

1  Samuel  xxvii.  20 161 

1  Kings  xviii.  21 108 

Job  xxxix.  25 124 

Psalm  viii.  2 132 

Psalm  ix.  17 84 

Psalm  xxiv.  7 Ill 

Psalm  xxxvi.  7 249 

Psalm  xc.  1 148 

Psalm  xcvii.  10 226 

Psalm  cxvi.  15 50 

Proverbs  xxvii.  8 102 

Isaiah  xlii.  1 251 

Joel  ii.  28 133 

Amos  viii.  11 148 

Haggaiii.  7 119 

New  Testament. 

Matthew  ii.  1 1 224 

Matthew  v.  8 239 

Matthew  v.  17 107 

Matthew  vii.  3-5 39 

Matthew  vii.  22,  23 88 

Matthew  xi.  4,  5 119 

Matthew  xvi.  23 81 

Matthew  xviii.  5 118 

Matthew  xix.  14 129 

Matthew  xx.  16 124 

Matthew  xxi.  16 132 

Matthew  xxii.  14 124 

Matthew  xxii.  42 213 

Matthew  xxiii.  5 88 

Matthew  xxvi.  13 155 

Matthew  xxvi.  66 213 

Matthew  xxvi.  75 235 

Mark  ii.  27 218 

(284) 


Mark  viii.  29 156 

Mark  viii.  33 81 

Mark  x.  14 129 

Markxiv.  8 232 

Markxiv.  9 155 

Mark  xiv.  64 213 

Mark  xvi.  15 86,  195 

Luke  ii.  7 50 

Lukeii.  14 25 

Lukeii.  49 177 

Luke  iv.  4 221 

Luke  vii.  38-46 101 

Lukeix.  20 156 

Luke  ix.  23 225 

Luke  xii.  15 50,  51 

Luke  xvi.  8 94 

Lukexvii.  20 114 

Lukexviii.il 62,122,178 

Luke  xviii.  16 129 

Luke  xxii.  62 235 

Luke  xxiv.  32 182 

Johni.  32,33 251 

Johnii.  1-11 214,215 

Johnii.  18 215 

John  iv.  4 216 

Johniv.  5 217 

John  iv.  38 173 

John  vi.  15-21 220 

John  vi.  30 215 

John  vii.  1-13 221 

John  vii.  30 225 

John  vii.  33 110 

John  vii.  34 110 

John  vii.  43 223 

Jolin  vii.  53 110 

John  viii.  1 110 

John  viii.  2-11 224 

John  viii.  32 179 

John  ix.  16 223 

John  X.  4 228 

Johnx.  19 223 

John  xi.  25 114 


Wit  and  Wisdom  of  Warren  Akin  Candler    285 


Johnxvii.  20,  21 87 

Actsii.  17 133 

Actsiii.  24 161 

Acts  xvii,  36,  37 249 

Romans  v.  3 107 

Romans  v.  20 252 

Romans  vii.  7 235 

Romans  viii.  7 222 

Romans  xii.  1,  2 113 

Romans  xii.  2 32 

1  Corinthians  i,  27 134 

1  Corinthians  ii.  9 82 

1  Corinthians  xii.  3 240 

1  Corinthians  xv.  14 82 

1  Corinthians  xv.  24 251 

1  Corinthians  xv.  33 201 

1  Corinthians  xvi.  22 1 10,  232 

2  Corinthians  ii.  16 228 

2  Corinthians  iii.  17 101.  191 


2  Corinthians  xii.  9 117 

Galatians  i.  10 83 

Ephesians  ii.  13-22 41 

Ephesians  iv.  19 101 

Ephesians  vi.  12 227 

Philippians  iii.  8 Ill 

Philippians  iv.  7 1 10,  236 

Colossians  i.  13 252 

Colossians  i.  27 199,  230 

Colossians  iii.  1 246 

2  Timothy  iv.  4 219 

Hebrews  ix.  22 92 

Hebrews  xi.  5 248 

James  ii.  19 54 

Jude3 199 

Revelation  iii.  21 233 

Revelation  vi.  6 249 

Revelation  xix.  7 245 

Revelation  xxii.  2 161 


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